Potlatch Papers

Auteur: Bracken, Christopher
Editeur: The University of Chicago Press
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".
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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".
ISBN / EAN 9780226069876
Auteur Bracken, Christopher
Editeur The University of Chicago Press