Symbolic Immortality(English, Paperback, Kan Sergei)

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Symbolic Immortality(English, Paperback, Kan Sergei) is written by Kan Sergei and published by University of Washington Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0295994894 (ISBN 10) and 9780295994895 (ISBN 13).

Decades after its initial publication, Symbolic Immortality retains its status as the most comprehensive analysis of the mortuary practices of the Tlingit Indians of southeastern Alaska-or any other indigenous culture of the Northwest Coast. This updated and expanded edition furthers our understanding of the potlatch (koo.eex') as a total social phenomenon, with emotional and religious as well as economic and sociopolitical dimensions. The result is a major contribution to both Northwest Coast ethnology and theoretical literature on the anthropology of death.