“It Is a Strict Law That Bids Us Dance”: Cosmologies, Colonialism, Death, and Ritual Authority in the Kwakwaka'aakw Potlatch, 1849 to 1922

Comparative Studies in Society and History

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 41-75

  Masco, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84974159450     PISSN: 00104175     EISSN: 14752999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0010417500019526     Document Type: Article

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