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  • The Tlingit in Sitka

    The Photography of Elbridge W. Merrill

    by Sergei Kan ...
    A rare window into the changing lives of Alaska Natives between the late 1800s and 1920sLured north by the Klondike gold rush, Elbridge W. Merrill settled in Sitka, Alaska, and took up a career as a professional photographer. Merrill developed a good rapport with the town’s Indigenous Tlingit community, and his images of the Tlingit provide an invaluable historical and ethnographic record of their ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Memory Eternal

    Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries

    by Sergei Kan ...
    In Memory Eternal, Sergei Kan combines anthropology and history, anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s and to analyze the indigenous Orthodoxy that developed over the next 200 years. As a native speaker of Russian with eighteen years of fieldwork experience among the Tlingit, Kan is uniquely qualified to ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Symbolic Immortality

    The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century, Second Edition

    by Sergei Kan ...
    Series series Naomi B. Pascal Editor's Endowment
    Decades after its initial publication, Symbolic Immortality retains its status as the most comprehensive analysis of the mortuary practices of the Tlingit Indians of southeastern Alaska—or any other indigenous culture of the Northwest Coast. This updated and expanded edition furthers our understanding of the potlatch (koo.éex’) as a total social phenomenon, with emotional and religious as well as ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • A Maverick Boasian

    The Life and Work of Alexander A. Goldenweiser

    by Sergei A. Kan ...
    Series series Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
    A Maverick Boasian explores the often contradictory life of Alexander Goldenweiser (1880–1940), a scholar considered by his contemporaries to be Franz Boas’s most brilliant and most favored student. The story of his life and scholarship is complex and exciting as well as frustrating. Although Goldenweiser came to the United States from Russia as a young man, he spent the next forty years thinking ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Death in the Early Twenty-first Century

    Authority, Innovation, and Mortuary Rites

    Edited by Sébastien Penmellen Boret, Susan Orpett Long, Sergei Kan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Focusing on tradition, technology, and authority, this volume challenges classical understandings that mortuary rites are inherently conservative. The contributors examine innovative and enduring ideas and practices of death, which reflect and constitute changing patterns of social relationships, memorialisation, and the afterlife. This cross-cultural study examines the lived experiences of men ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • The Raymond D. Fogelson Papers

    Essays on Ethnohistory, Ethnology, and Native American Studies

    by Raymond D. Fogelson ...
    Series series Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
    Raymond D. Fogelson was a luminary theoretician in the interdisciplinary field of ethnohistory who advocated for Indigenous-centered theory and ethnographic writing in the field of Cherokee studies and ethnohistory. Fogelson’s unique methodology was to look for institutions that Cherokees and Native peoples themselves considered traditional and to carefully study them.Fogelson taught in the ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

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  • Pilgrim's Wilderness

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    Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness—and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch.When Papa Pilgrim, his wife, and their fifteen children appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy, their new neighbors saw them as a shining example of the homespun Christian ... Read more

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  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

    An Indian History of the American West

    by Dee Brown ...
    Dee Brown’s powerful and unforgettable classic that awakened the world to the nineteenth-century decimation of American Indian tribesFirst published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee Brown focuses on the betrayals ... Read more

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  • If the Oceans Were Ink

    An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran

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    "A welcome nuanced look at Islam . . . combat[s]the dehumanizing stereotypes of Muslims that are all too common. . . . Mandatory reading." — The Washington PostPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTAn eye-opening story of how Carla Powers and her longtime friend Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi found a way to confront ugly stereotypes and persistent misperceptions that were cleaving ... Read more

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  • The Fetterman Massacre

    Fort Phil Kearny and the Battle of the Hundred Slain

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