"It is a Strict Law That Bids Us Dance": Cosmologies, Colonialism, Death, and Ritual Authority in the Kwakwaka'wakw Potlatch, 1849 to 1922

Argues that contact with Europeans fundamentally altered the Kwakwaka'wakw culture, rituals. Includes commentary on the Alert Bay trials.
Author/Creator
Joseph Masco
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Citation
Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 37, no. 1, January 1995, pp. 41-75
Publication Date
1995-01
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Articles -- Scholarly, peer reviewed
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Text -- HTML
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