The Tsimshian
The Tsimshian

Author: Margaret Seguin

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780774804738

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This volume examines Tsimshian culture from the prehistoric period to the recent past and includes contributions from such diverse perspectives as archaeology, linguistics, and social anthropology. The contributors demonstrate a balance between current fieldwork and careful archival analysis, as they build on the voluminous materials that are a legacy of the scholarship of such major figures as Boas, Barbeau, Tate, and Garfield. The book includes chapters on the crest system and participation of the Tsimshian in the 'non-Native' economy of the region and introduces much original material on shamanism, basket making, and feasting.

The Journal of Philosophy
The Journal of Philosophy

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Published: 1911

Total Pages: 744

ISBN-13:

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Covers topics in philosophy, psychology, and scientific methods. Vols. 31- include "A Bibliography of philosophy," 1933-

Potlatch at Gitsegukla
Potlatch at Gitsegukla

Author: Marjorie M. Halpin

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0774842504

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William Beynon was born in 1888 in Victoria to a Welsh father and a Tsimshian mother. He was an accomplished ethnographer and had a long career documenting the traditions of the Tsimshian, Nisga'a, and Gitksan. In 1945 he attended and actively participated in five days of potlatches and totem pole raisings at Gitksan village of Gitsegukla. There he compiled four notebooks containing detailed and often verbatim information about the events he witnessed. For over 50 years these notebooks have seen limited circulation among specialists, who have long recognized them as the most perceptive and complete account of potlatching ever recorded.