UID:
almafu_9960011183302883
Format:
1 online resource (417 p.)
Edition:
Second edition.
ISBN:
0-295-80628-1
Series Statement:
Naomi B. Pascal Editor's Endowment
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; SYMBOLIC IMMORTALITY; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgments; Tlingit Alphabet; Tlingit Technical Sound Chart; Map of Southeast Alaska, the Land of the Coastal Tlingits; Introduction; Chapter One. Outline of the Mortuary Rites; PART ONE. THE PERSON AND THE SOCIAL ORDER; Chapter Two. The "Outside" and the "Inside": The Tlingit View of the Human Being; Chapter Three. Shagóon and the Social Person: The Cultural Ideal; Chapter Four. The Aristocrat as the Ideal Person; PART TWO. THE FUNERAL
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Chapter Five. Cosmology, Eschatology, and the Nature of DeathChapter Six. The Deceased, the Mourners, and the Opposites: Actors in the Ritual Drama; Chapter Seven. Grief, Mourning, and the Politics of the Funeral; PART THREE. THE POTLATCH; Chapter Eight. The Potlatch as a Mortuary Ritual; Chapter Nine. Competition and Cooperation, Hierarchy and Equality; PART FOUR. DEATH IN NORTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA AND BEYOND; Chapter Ten. The Tlingit Mortuary Complex: A Comparative Perspective; Conclusion: The Tlingit Mortuary Complex and the Anthropology of Death; Epilogue; Notes; Glossary; References
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Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-295-99489-4
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
