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Author Boelscher, Marianne

Title The curtain within : Haida social and mythical discourse / Marianne Boelscher
Published Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 1988

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 234 pages) : illustrations
Contents Contents -- Preface -- Transcription of Haida Phonetics -- Kin Term Abbreviations and Symbols -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The People and the Setting -- 3 Moieties, Lineages, and the Curtain Within -- 4 The Rhetoric of Rank and Reciprocity -- 5 Categories of Kinship and Marriage According to Rule -- 6 The Flux of Material and Symbolic Property -- 7 Powers and Their Transformations -- 8 Afterthoughts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S
Tv -- w -- x -- y
Summary Study of the modern Haida community. Includes ethnohistory and culture. Observes the collective and individual strategies involved in the management of social roles and symbols to achieve social and political goals
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index
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Subject Haida Indians -- Kinship
Haida Indians -- Social life and customs
Indians -- Social life and customs -- British Columbia -- Haida Gwaii
Haida Indians -- Religion
Indians -- Religion -- British Columbia -- Haida Gwaii
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
Indians -- Social life and customs
Indians -- Religion
Haida Indians -- Kinship
Haida Indians -- Social life and customs
Manners and customs
Ethnologie
Haida (Indiens) -- Moeurs et coutumes.
Haida (Indiens) -- Religion.
SUBJECT Haida Gwaii (B.C.) -- Social life and customs
Subject British Columbia -- Haida Gwaii
Heyda Ilmenau
Reine-Charlotte (Canada, Colombie britannique ; îles) -- Moeurs et coutumes.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780774856768
0774856769
1283226138
9781283226134
9786613226136
6613226130
9780774844758
0774844752