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Being and place among the Tlingit / Thomas F. Thornton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thornton, Thomas F.
- Series:
- Culture, place, and nature.
- Culture, place, and nature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tlingit Indians--Social life and customs.
- Tlingit Indians.
- Names, Geographical--Social aspects--Alaska.
- Names, Geographical.
- Cultural property--Alaska.
- Cultural property.
- Geographical perception--Alaska.
- Geographical perception.
- Alaska--Social life and customs.
- Alaska.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press ; Juneau [Alaska] : In association with Sealaska Heritage Institute, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "In Being and Place among the Tlingit, place signifies a specific geographical location and also reveals the ways in which individuals and social groups define themselves. The notion of place consists of three dimensions - space, time, and experience - which are culturally and environmentally structured. Thomas Thornton examines each in detail to show how individual and collective Tlingit notions of place, being, and identity are formed. As he observes, despite cultural and environmental changes over time, particularly in the post-contact era since the late eighteenth century, Tlingits continue to bind themselves and their culture to places and landscapes in distinctive ways."--Jacket.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780295800400
- 0295800402
- OCLC:
- 775468369
- Publisher Number:
- heb40081 hdl
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