Description |
1 online resource (xv, 247 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Culture, place, and nature |
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Culture, place, and nature.
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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.éex' -- Conclusion: Toward an anthropology of place |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-236) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Tlingit Indians -- Social life and customs
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Names, Geographical -- Social aspects -- Alaska
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Cultural property -- Alaska
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Geographical perception -- Alaska
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
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Cultural property
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Geographical perception
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Manners and customs
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Names, Geographical -- Social aspects
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Tlingit Indians -- Social life and customs
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Geografischer Name
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Raumwahrnehmung
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Ethnische Identität
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Identität -- Geographischer Raum -- Indianer -- Nordamerika.
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Geographischer Raum -- Identität -- Indianer -- Nordamerika.
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Umweltwahrnehmung -- Tlingit.
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Raumwahrnehmung.
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Ethnizität.
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Ortsname.
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SUBJECT |
Alaska -- Social life and customs
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Alaska
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Tlingit (Volk)
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Alaska.
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Tlingit.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Sealaska Heritage Institute.
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LC no. |
2007023887 |
ISBN |
9780295800400 |
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0295800402 |
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