Potlach Papers: A Colonial Case History

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1997
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Described as an exchange of gifts, a system of banking or a struggle for prestige, the potlatch is one of the founding concepts of anthropology. This book shows that the potlatch was invented by the 19th-century Canadian law which sought to destroy it, generating a batch of potlatch papers .

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Described as an exchange of gifts, a system of banking or a struggle for prestige, the potlatch is one of the founding concepts of anthropology. This book shows that the potlatch was invented by the 19th-century Canadian law which sought to destroy it, generating a batch of "potlatch papers".

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 283
Edition: New edition
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 04 Dec 1997
ISBN 10: 0226069877
ISBN 13: 9780226069876