Tlingit Indians of Alaska / translated with an introduction and supplementary material by Sergei Kan

Rasmuson Library historical translation series; vol. II

Kan, Sergei.

Symbolic immortality : the Tlingit potlatch of the nineteenth century

Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry

Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry.

Outline of the Mortuary Rites -- The Person and the Social Order -- The "Outside" and the "Inside": The Tlingit View of the Human Being -- Shagoon and the Social Person: The Cultural Ideal -- The Aristocrat as the Ideal Person -- The Funeral -- Cosmology, Eschatology, and the Nature of Death -- The Deceased, the Mourners, and the Opposites: Actors in the Ritual Drama -- Grief, Mourning, and the Politics of the Funeral -- The Potlatch -- Potlatch as a Mortuary Ritual -- Competition and Cooperation, Hierarchy and Equality -- Death in Northwestern North America and Beyond -- Tlingit Mortuary Complex, a Comparative Perspective -- Conclusion: Tlingit Mortuary Complex and the Anthropology of Death.

Memory eternal : Tlingit culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through two centuries