Goods, names, and selves: Rethinking the Tsimshian potlatch

American Ethnologist

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 123-150

  Roth, Christopher F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 0036013579     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2002.29.1.123     Document Type: Article

References (83)

1. Memories and moments: Conversations and re-collections
2. Introduction
3. Introduction: Commodities and the politics of value
4. The nature of the potlatch
5. Na maalsga walps Nislłgümiik: The Story of the house of Nislłgümiik
6. The feast of Nisyaganaat, chief of the gitsiis
7. The symbolism of money in Imerina
8. The social organization and the secret societies of the Kwakiutl Indians
9. Tsimshian mythology
10. The gitksan traditional concept of land ownership
11. Cloth and the creation of ancestors in Madagascar
12. Social reproduction and history in Melanesia: Mortuary ritual, gift exchange, and custom in the Tanga Islands
13. Tsimshian clan and society
14. The Tsimshian and their neighbors
15. Changes in coast Tsimshian redistributive activities in the fort simpson region of British Columbia, 1788-1862
16. An introduction to Tsimshian worldview and its practitioners
17. The structure of Tsimshian totemism
18. Tsimshian peoples: Southern Tsimshian, Coast Tsimshian, Nishga, and Gitksan
19. A faith in stone: Gravestones, missionaries, and culture change and continuity among British Columbia's Tsimshian Indians
20. Robes of power: Totem poles on cloth
21. The cultural biography of things: Commoditization as process
22. Incorporeal property in primitive society
23. Tsimshian narratives 2: Trade and warfare
24. A Category of the human mind: The notion of person; The notion of self
25. A Description of the Kitsumkalum pole raising and feast of 1987
26. Transcript of the Bax Ma-am Laup for Ed Bolton
27. Tsimshian moieties and other clarifications
28. Feasting with the southern Tsimshian
29. Inalienable ethnography: Keeping-while-giving and the Trobriand case
30. Black market in prerogatives among the northern Kwakiutl
31. "The names spread in all directions": Hereditary name-titles in Tsimshian social and political life
32. Preface: Wilawilhl ts'im wilp liligit (what Goes On in a feast hall)
33. Cosmologies of capitalism: The trans-pacific sector of "the world system."
34. A sketch of the social organization of the nass river indians
35. The social organization of the west coast tribes
36. Lest there be no salmon: Symbols in traditional Tsimshian Potlatch
37. Interpretive contexts for traditional and current coast Tsimshian feasts
38. Understanding Tsimshian "Potlatch."
39. Shifters, linguistic categories, and cultural description
40. Metapragmatic discourse and metapragmatic function
41. Why cloth? Wealth, gender, and power in Oceania