Description
Book SynopsisCombines 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.
Trade Review"This extraordinary book…is a model of historical anthropology."
* American Historical Review *
“[Provides] a vivid picture of the engagements between the actors who together contributed to transforming Tlingit culture: the different Tlingit families, the Russian traders, Orthodox and Presbyterian missionaries, Russian and U.S. settlers, and Tlingit women and men.
* American Ethnologist *
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Lingit Kusteeyi: Tlingit Economy, Society, and Religion at the Time of Contact
2. Anooshi: The People “from Under the Horizon”
3. The Early Decades of Tlingit-Russian Interaction
4. The Tlingit and the Russian Orthodox Church, 1834-67: From the Smallpox Epidemic to the Sale of Alaska
5. The Early Decades of the Waashdan Kwaan Rule, 1867-85
6. The Massive Conversion to Orthodoxy during the Donskoi Era, 1886-95
7. Native Brotherhoods and the Further Development of Tlingit Orthodoxy, 1895-1917
8. Village Orthodoxy: The Case of Killisnoo
9. Tlingit Orthodoxy as a Cultural System
10. The Difficult Years and the Survival of Tlingit Orthodoxy, 1917-67
11. Tlingit Orthodoxy in a New Era, 1967-90s
12. Conclusion
Notes
Appendix
References
Index
