Against Culture: Development, Politics and Religion in Indian Alaska
In a small Tlingit village in 1992, newly converted members of an all‐native church started a bonfire of "non‐Christian" items, including, reportedly, native dancing regalia. The burnings recalled an earlier century in which church converts in the same village burned totem poles. This book...
| Published in: | North American Dialogue |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2004
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nad.2004.7.1.1 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1525%2Fnad.2004.7.1.1 https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/nad.2004.7.1.1 |
| Summary: | In a small Tlingit village in 1992, newly converted members of an all‐native church started a bonfire of "non‐Christian" items, including, reportedly, native dancing regalia. The burnings recalled an earlier century in which church converts in the same village burned totem poles. This book traces the years leading up to the most recent burnings and reveals the multiple strands of social tension defining Tlingit and Haida life in Southeast Alaska today. |
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