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List of bibliographical materials on the potlatch information


Below is a list of books and sources about the potlatch, an Indigenous ceremony from the north west coast of Canada, and the United States.

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List of bibliographical materials on the potlatch

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Below is a list of books and sources about the potlatch, an Indigenous ceremony from the north west coast of Canada, and the United States. Barnett, Homer...

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Potlatch

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A potlatch is a gift-giving feast practiced by Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada and the United States, among whom it is traditionally...

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Index of articles related to Indigenous Canadians

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500–1200) Post-Classic stage (c. 1200–1900) List of bibliographical materials on the potlatch List of Canadians List of Canadians § Aboriginal leaders Big Bear...

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Haida people

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called Potlatch. After the Island's wide arrival of red cedar some 7,500 years ago Haida society transformed to centre around the coastal "tree of life"...

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Indian Act

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society for which on June 11, 2008, the government of Canada apologized. In 1885, an amendment to the act banned the Potlatch ceremony of the West Coast peoples...

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The Accursed Share

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to the formulation of the theory was Bataille's reflection upon the phenomenon of potlatch. It is influenced by the sociologist Marcel Mauss's The Gift...

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Anthropology

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methods and materials go beyond the standard use of documents and manuscripts. Practitioners recognize the utility of such source material as maps, music...

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Canadian genocide of the First Nations

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date back to the very beginnings of the federation, as well as to the very beginnings of its predecessor states. List of genocides List of Indian massacres...

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Lummi Nation

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the Lummi Nation has worked to revive elements of its traditional culture. From July 30 to August 4, 2007, the Lummi Nation hosted its first potlatch...

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Longhouse

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World Culture Galleries: Gallery of Canada: First Peoples Collections & Research Online image collection. The Potlatch Longhouse (Haida potlatches and...

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Coast Salish languages

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iron hand upon the people: the law against the potlatch on the Northwest coast. Vancouver and Seattle: Douglas & McIntyre and University of Washington Press...

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History of Canada

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whaling and war canoes and elaborately carved potlatch items and totem poles. In the Arctic archipelago, the distinctive Paleo-Eskimos known as Dorset peoples...

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Cultural ecology

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hoarding or gifting (e.g. the tradition of the potlatch on the Northwest North American coast). One 2000s-era conception of cultural ecology is as a general...

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Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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worked in a wide range of materials, perishable materials, such as plant fibers or hides, had seldom been preserved through the millennia. Indigenous peoples...

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British Columbia

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cultures dependent on the western red cedar that included wooden houses, seagoing whaling and war canoes and elaborately carved potlatch items and totem...

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History of the United States

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celebrated by the gift-giving feast of the potlatch. These gatherings were usually organized to commemorate special events such as the raising of a Totem pole...

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1973 oil crisis

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that OAPEC targeted were Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This list was later expanded to include Portugal,...

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George Murdock

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Society, 4.4: 1–3 (1935) "The Witoto Kinship System", American Anthropologist, n.s., 38: 525–527 (1936) "Rank and Potlatch among the Haida", Yale University...

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First Nations in Canada

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indigenous peoples. The Indian Act banned manifestations of the Sun Dance, the Potlatch, and works of art depicting them. It was not until the 1950s and 1960s...

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Coast Salish

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suppression ended in the US in 1934, and in 1951 in Canada. Some potlatching became overt immediately. A resurgence of tribal culture began in the 1960s; national...

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Economic anthropology

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such as the Kula ring in the Trobriands, the Potlatch of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, or the Toraja of South Sulawesi, Indonesia...

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Canadian Indian residential school system

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no English or French. Traditional and spiritual activities including the potlatch and Sun Dance were also banned. Some survivors reported being strapped...

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Indigenous peoples in Canada

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Indigenous peoples. The Indian Act banned manifestations of the Sun Dance, the Potlatch, and works of art depicting them. It was not until the 1950s and 1960s...

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Gift economy

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the Kula ring in the Trobriands, the Potlatch of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, and the Toraja of South Sulawesi, Indonesia) are...

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Applied anthropology

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anthropology as a focus on "the study of humans, past and present. To understand the full sweep and complexity of cultures across all of human history, anthropology...

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Edward Sapir

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Iroquois in 1988.) He also argued for the reversal of a Canadian law prohibiting the Potlatch ceremony of the West Coast tribes. In 1915 Sapir returned...

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Marshall Sahlins

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of the marvelous. The 2008 Raymond Firth Lecture HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2 (1): 131-160, 2012. On the culture of material value and the cosmography...

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