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Described as an exchange of gifts, a system of banking or a struggle for prestige, the potlatch is one of the founding concepts of anthropology. This book shows that the potlatch was invented by the 19th-century Canadian law which sought to destroy it, generating a batch of potlatch papers.

The Potlatch Papers

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    A Paperback / softback by Christopher Bracken

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 08/12/1997
      ISBN13: 9780226069876, 978-0226069876
      ISBN10: 0226069877
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      Colonialism and imperialism

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      Book Synopsis
      Described as an exchange of gifts, a system of banking or a struggle for prestige, the potlatch is one of the founding concepts of anthropology. This book shows that the potlatch was invented by the 19th-century Canadian law which sought to destroy it, generating a batch of potlatch papers.

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