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Being and place among the Tlingit /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thornton, Thomas F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle : Juneau [Alaska] : University of Washington Press ; In association with Sealaska Heritage Institute, [2008]
Subjects:
Geographical perception > Alaska.
Cultural property > Alaska.
Names, Geographical > Social aspects > Alaska.
Tlingit Indians > Social life and customs.
Alaska > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Place and Tlingit senses of being
  • Know your place : the social organization of geographic knowledge
  • What's in a name? : place and cognition
  • Production and place : "it was easy for me to put up fish there"
  • Ritual as emplacement : the potlatch / ku.eex'
  • Conclusion: Toward an anthropology of place.