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The Potlatch Papers: A Colonial Case History
Christopher Bracken
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| #1350134 in Books | Christopher Bracken | 1997-12-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.90 x5.50l,.89 | File type: PDF | 283 pages | The Potlatch Papers A Colonial Case History||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A defining work of modern anthropology|By Robert M. Koretsky|I came to this book via a reference in an excellent critique of Baudrillard, by Richard J. Lane, who, in short, suggested that perhaps Baudrillard's use of the term " potlatch" was inaccurate, or based upon a faulty reading of primitive societies. Mr. Lane effectively deconstructs Baudrillard's notion of primitive soc|From the Back Cover|Variously described as an exchange of gifts, a destruction of property, a system of banking, and a struggle for prestige, the potlatch is one of the founding concepts of anthropology. Some researchers even claim to have discovered traces of t
Variously described as an exchange of gifts, a destruction of property, a system of banking, and a struggle for prestige, the potlatch is one of the founding concepts of anthropology. Some researchers even claim to have discovered traces of the potlatch in all the economies of the world.
However, as Christopher Bracken shows in this elegantly argued work, the potlatch was in fact invented by the nineteenth-century Canadian law that sought to destroy it. In ad...
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