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Symbolic Immortality
The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century, Second Edition
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...
ISBN: 9780295994895
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Memory Eternal
Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries
In Memory Eternal, Sergei Kan combines anthropology and history, anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s and to analyze the...
ISBN: 9780295993867
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The Tlingit in Sitka
The Photography of Elbridge W. Merrill
A rare window into the changing lives of Native Alaskans between the late 1800s and 1920s
Lured north by the Klondike gold rush, Elbridge W. Merrill settled in Sitka, Alaska, and took up a career as a...
ISBN: 9780295753478
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