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1 online resource (xv, 247 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
Culture, place, and nature |
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Culture, place, and nature.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-236) and index. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| Note |
All rights reserved. |
| Language |
Includes some text in Tlingit. |
| Subject |
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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Alaska -- Social life and customs.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Sealaska Heritage Institute, contributor.
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American Council of Learned Societies.
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| Added Title |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
9780295987491 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0295987499 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780295997179 hardcover |
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9780295987491 paperback |
| Standard No. |
heb40081 hdl |
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