Being and place among the Tlingit
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Bibliographic Information
Being and place among the Tlingit
（Culture, place, and nature）
University of Washington Press , In association with Sealaska Heritage Institute, c2008
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Available at 2 libraries
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University Library for Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo図
hard382.5:Th85011084356
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-236) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In Being and Place among the Tlingit, anthropologist Thomas F. Thornton examines the concept of place in the language, social structure, economy, and ritual of southeast Alaska's Tlingit Indians. Place signifies not only a specific geographical location but 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. 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. He offers insight into how Tlingits in particular, and humans in general, conceptualize their relationship to the lands they inhabit, arguing for a study of place that considers all aspects of human interaction with landscape.
In Tlingit, it is difficult even to introduce oneself without referencing places in Lingit Aani (Tlingit Country). Geographic references are embedded in personal names, clan names, house names, and, most obviously, in k-waan names, which define regions of dwelling. To say one is Sheet'ka K-waan defines one as a member of the Tlingit community that inhabits Sheet'ka (Sitka).
Being and Place among the Tlingit makes a substantive contribution to the literature on the Tlingit, the Northwest Coast cultural area, Native American and indigenous studies, and to the growing social scientific and humanistic literature on space, place, and landscape.
Table of Contents
Tlingit Spelling and Pronunciation Guide
Preface
1. Introduction: Place and Tlingit Senses of Being
2. Know Your Place: The Social Organization of Geographic Knowledge
3. What's in a Name? Place and Cognition
4. Production and Place: "It was easy for me to put up fish there"
5. Ritual as Emplacement: The Potlatch / Ku.eex'
6. Conclusion: Toward an Anthropology of Place
Appendix: Tlingit Resources with Seasonality
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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