| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 268 pages) |
| Series |
Carleton library, 0576-7784 ; number 25 |
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Carleton library ; no. 25. 0576-7784
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| Contents |
An introduction to the area. The Indian tribes of the North Pacific Coast / Franz Boas -- Primary forms of material culture : living and eating / John R. Jewitt -- Boatmanship / Gilbert Malcolm Sproat -- Nootka whaling / Philip Drucker -- Social organization. The social organization of the west coast tribes / Edward Sapir -- Social organization of the Haida / John R. Swanton -- The ancestral family of the Bella Coola / T.F. McIlwraith -- The potlatch. The potlatch / Franz Boas -- The nature of the potlatch / H.G. Barnett -- Fighting with property / Helen Codere -- Some variations on the potlatch / Philip Drucker -- Black market in prerogatives among the northern Kwakiutl / Ronald L. Olson -- Git-laʹn Chief's potlatch / Viola Garfield -- Daniel Cranmer's potlatch / Helen Codere -- Lagius gives me a copper / Clellan S. Ford -- Rank and class: viewpoints. Rank, wealth, and kinship in Northwest Coast society / Philip Drucker -- Kwakiutl society : rank without class / Helen Codere -- Boas and the neglect of commoners / Verne F. Ray, Robert H. Lowie -- Private knowledge, morality, and social classes among the Coast Salish / Wayne Suttles -- Ceremonialism. The winter ceremonial / Franz Boas -- Charlie Nowell recalls the winter ceremonies / Clellan S. Ford -- Deviance and normality. Crime and punishment in Tlingit society / Kalervo Oberg -- The patterns of the culture / Philip Drucker -- The amiable side of Kwakiutl life : the potlatch and the play potlatch / Helen Codere -- The amiable side of Patterns of culture / Victor Barnouw -- Appendix. Culture element distributions / Philip Drucker -- Suggestions for futher reading |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
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HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Indians of North America
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North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McFeat, Tom, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780773573482 |
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0773573488 |
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