Decades after its initial publication, Symbolic Immortality retains its status as the most comprehensive analysis of the mortuary practices of the Tlingit Indians of southeastern Alaska-or any other indigenous culture of the Northwest Coast. This updated and expanded edition furthers our understanding of the potlatch (koo.eex') as a total social phenomenon, with emotional and religious as well as economic and sociopolitical dimensions. The result is a major contribution to both Northwest Coast ethnology and theoretical literature on the anthropology of death.
- ISBN10 1560983094
- ISBN13 9781560983095
- Publish Date 1 June 1989
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 16 April 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Smithsonian Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English