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Being and Place Among the Tlingit
Thomas F. Thornton  

$29.95 Paperback
Release Date: 12/1/2007
ISBN: 9780295987491    
224 Pages

Distributed for University of Washigton Press



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About the Book

Thomas Thornton examines the concept of place in the language, social structure, economy, and ritual of southeast Alaska’s Tlingit Indians. As Thornton explains, place signifies not only a specific location, but also reveals the ways in which individuals and social groups define themselves.
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.

About the Author(s)

Thomas F. Thornton is a professor of anthropology at Portland State University.

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This book will be a model for Native Alaskan cultural ecology. Case studies are illustrated with the lives of traditional Tlingit elders and the naming of particular places, showing how names, stories, songs, myth, legend, history, artistic designs, food gathering, and material culture (such as boat design) are specific to place. - Richard Dauenhauer, University of Alaska Southeast

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