Below is a listof books and sources about thepotlatch, an Indigenous ceremony from the north west coast of Canada, and the United States. Barnett, Homer...
A potlatch is a gift-giving feast practiced by Indigenous peoples ofthe Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada and the United States, among whom it is traditionally...
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"...
society for which on June 11, 2008, the government of Canada apologized. In 1885, an amendment to the act banned thePotlatch ceremony ofthe West Coast peoples...
to the formulation ofthe theory was Bataille's reflection upon the phenomenon ofpotlatch. It is influenced by the sociologist Marcel Mauss's The Gift...
methods and materials go beyond the standard use of documents and manuscripts. Practitioners recognize the utility of such source material as maps, music...
date back to the very beginnings ofthe federation, as well as to the very beginnings of its predecessor states. Listof genocides Listof Indian massacres...
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...
World Culture Galleries: Gallery of Canada: First Peoples Collections & Research Online image collection. ThePotlatch Longhouse (Haida potlatches and...
iron hand upon the people: the law against thepotlatchonthe Northwest coast. Vancouver and Seattle: Douglas & McIntyre and University of Washington Press...
whaling and war canoes and elaborately carved potlatch items and totem poles. In the Arctic archipelago, the distinctive Paleo-Eskimos known as Dorset peoples...
hoarding or gifting (e.g. the tradition ofthepotlatchonthe Northwest North American coast). One 2000s-era conception of cultural ecology is as a general...
worked in a wide range of materials, perishable materials, such as plant fibers or hides, had seldom been preserved through the millennia. Indigenous peoples...
cultures dependent onthe western red cedar that included wooden houses, seagoing whaling and war canoes and elaborately carved potlatch items and totem...
celebrated by the gift-giving feast ofthepotlatch. These gatherings were usually organized to commemorate special events such as the raising of a Totem pole...
that OAPEC targeted were Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This list was later expanded to include Portugal,...
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...
indigenous peoples. The Indian Act banned manifestations ofthe Sun Dance, thePotlatch, and works of art depicting them. It was not until the 1950s and 1960s...
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...
such as the Kula ring in the Trobriands, thePotlatchofthe Indigenous peoples ofthe Pacific Northwest Coast, or the Toraja of South Sulawesi, Indonesia...
no English or French. Traditional and spiritual activities including thepotlatch and Sun Dance were also banned. Some survivors reported being strapped...
Indigenous peoples. The Indian Act banned manifestations ofthe Sun Dance, thePotlatch, and works of art depicting them. It was not until the 1950s and 1960s...
the Kula ring in the Trobriands, thePotlatchofthe indigenous peoples ofthe Pacific Northwest Coast, and the Toraja of South Sulawesi, Indonesia) are...
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...
Iroquois in 1988.) He also argued for the reversal of a Canadian law prohibiting thePotlatch ceremony ofthe West Coast tribes. In 1915 Sapir returned...
ofthe marvelous. The 2008 Raymond Firth Lecture HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2 (1): 131-160, 2012. Onthe culture ofmaterial value and the cosmography...