The Potlatch Papers: A Colonial Case History - Christopher Bracken - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226069876 - 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".


224 pages, 9 halftones, 2 maps

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released December 8, 1997
ISBN13 9780226069876
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 283
Dimensions 218 × 150 × 16 mm   ·   356 g

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