The dead and the living : burial mounds & cairns and the development of social classes in the Gulf of Georgia region

• Main Author: Thom, Brian David
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 1995
• Subjects: Coast Salish > Material culture; First Nations > British Columbia > Antiquities; First Nations > Archaeology; Social archaeology; Cairns; Coast Salish > Death customs; Cairn; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3859

This thesis provides a model for understanding how social classes arose in the Gulf of Georgia area. This model distinguishes how social status in rank and a class societies are manifested and maintained in non-state, kin-based societies, drawing mainly from ethnographic descriptions. The relationsh...