The Potlatch Papers: A Colonial Case History - Christopher Bracken - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226069869 - December 8, 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".


283 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released December 8, 1997
ISBN13 9780226069869
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 283
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   567 g
Language English  

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