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1	I Heard the Owl Call My Name more books like this by Margaret Craven add to wishlist One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools. A young priest is sent to an isolated Indian village in British Columbia. His life is doomed, and so are the traditions of the tribe amongst whom he works. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Patterns of Culture more books like this by Ruth Benedict add to wishlist For more than a generation, this pioneering book has been an indispensable introduction to the field of anthropology. Here, in her study of three sharply contrasting cultures, Benedict puts forward her famous thesis that a people's culture is an integrated whole, a "personality writ large". Includes a preface from Margaret Mead. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.48! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Kwakiutl: Indians of British Columbia more books like this by Ronald P Rohner, Evelyn C Bettauer add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $43.73! \| first editions
4	Chiefly Feasts: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch more books like this by Aldona Jonaitis (Editor) add to wishlist The magnificent collection of art made by the Kwakiutl Indians of northern Vancouver Island and the nearby mainland, assembled in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for the American Museum of Natural History, lies at the heart of 'Chiefly Feasts.' More than one hundred objects from the American Museum and other collections are ... see all copies from $17.00! new only from $53.00! \| first editions
5	Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis more books like this by Eric R Wolf add to wishlist This text explores the historical relationship of ideas, power, and culture. Responding to anthropolgy's long reliance on a concept of culture that takes little account of power, it is argued that power is crucial in shaping the circumstances of cultural production. It also demonstrates that social-science notions of ideology incorporate power but ... see all copies from $4.40! new only from $36.28!
6	Ghost Sea more books like this by Ferenc Mate add to wishlist At the turn of the century, a Kwakiutl warrior raids a collector's yacht to reclaim stolen sacred masks. He takes the collector's wife hostage on his 200-mile voyage home. The collector hires a trader to give chase. The account of the pursuit is interwoven with the wife's harrowing and erotically charged journey. Based on a true story, "Ghost Sea" ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Kwakiutl ethnography more books like this by Franz Boas add to wishlist see all copies from $12.95!
8	Smoke from Their Fires: The Life of a Kwakiuti Chief more books like this by Clellan S Ford, Charles James Nowell add to wishlist see all copies from $9.80!
9	Kwakiutl string figures more books like this by Julia Averkieva, Mark A. Sherman add to wishlist Of the games people play, string figures afford nearly universal amusement, appearing in more cultures than any other. But although over 2,000 individual patterns have been recorded world-wide since 1888, when anthropologist Franz Boas first described a pair of Eskimo "cat's cradles", very few studies have explored North American Indian string ... see all copies from $5.95! new only from $29.50! \| first editions
10	Kwakiutl Legends more books like this by James Wallas, Pamela Whitaker add to wishlist The stories in this book relate the traditional tales which Mr James Wallas has learned from his elders, who lived in Quatsino Sound and on Hope Island. Mr. Wallas's forefathers are members of a people known generally as the Kwakiutl, although the term is misleading because it originally referred to a sub-group living at Fort Rupert. The Kwakiutl ... see all copies from $3.16! new only from $8.95! \| first editions
11	A Kwakiutl Village & School more books like this by Harry F Wolcott add to wishlist This book is a reprint of a now classic text dealing with Wolcott's dissertation topic on the study of a Kwakiutl Indian village and the one-room school in which he taught at Village Island in the Alert Bay region of British Columbia. Within the book, Wolcott's interest in anthropology and training as an educator are blended together to present a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.10! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Guests never leave hungry; the autobiography of James Sewid, a Kwakiutl Indian more books like this by James Sewid, James P. Spradley add to wishlist The story of James Sewid, a twentieth-century Kwakiutl Indian Chieftain, brings to life the experience of one man caught in conflict as the traditional Kwakiutl culture gave way to the demands of an expanding Western society in British Columbia. Born in 1910 into a rapidly disintegrating Indian culture, Sewid as a young child received unusually ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.01! \| signed copies \| first editions
13	Kwakiutl Tales more books like this by Franz Boas add to wishlist see all copies from $15.16! new only from $22.23! \| first editions
14	Secret of the Dance more books like this by Andrea Spalding add to wishlist "In 1935, a boy witnesses a forbidden potlatch." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| SVS
15 view cover	Initiation more books like this by Virginia Frances Schwartz add to wishlist North America during the 15th century, a powerful story of a proud tribe, the Spirit World that guides them, and the desperate struggle of three extraordinary young people on the verge of adulthood. Age 11+. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
16	Our Chiefs and Elders: Words and Photographs of Native Leaders more books like this by David Neel add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $37.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Hamatsa: The Enigma of Cannibalism on the Pacific NW Coast more books like this by Jim McDowell add to wishlist For over 200 years, controversy has simmered over the subject of cannibalism on the Pacific Northwest Coast. So heated has the topic become that many scholars have hesitated to engage in the debate. Now, using an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural approach, historian Jim McDowell offers a comprehensive study of cannibalism on the coast. Beginning ... see all copies from $11.95! new only from $13.80! \| first editions \| SVS
18	Wisdom of the elders : native traditions on the northwest coast : the Nuu-chah-nulth, Southern Kwakiutl, and Nuxalk more books like this by Ruth Kirk add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
19	Kwakiutl legends as told to Pamela Whitaker more books like this by James Wallas, Pamela Whitaker add to wishlist see all copies from $2.74! new only from $35.00! \| first editions
20	Perspectives in American Indian Culture Change more books like this by Edward H Spicer (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Kwakiutl Texts more books like this by Franz Boas add to wishlist Publications Of The Jesup North Pacific Expedition. New York: Memoirs Of The American Museum Of Natural History, December 1902. Whole Series, Vol. V. Anthropology, Vol. IV. see all copies from $15.43! new only from $15.43! \| first editions \| SVS
22	Native North American cultures : four cases more books like this by George Dearborn Spindler, Louise S. Spindler add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
23	Smoky-Top, the Art and Times of Willie Seaweed more books like this by Bill Holm, Willie Seaweed (Photographer) add to wishlist see all copies from $42.99! first editions
24 view cover	Kwakiutl(oop) more books like this by Stanley Walens add to wishlist Examines the history, changing fortunes, and current situation of the Kwakiutl Indians. Includes a picture essay of their crafts. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
25	Two Wolves at the Dawn of Time more books like this by Judith Williams add to wishlist In 1998, Dzawada'enuxw artist Marianne Nicholson scaled a vertical rock face in Kingcome Inlet to paint a massive pictograph to mark the continued vitality of her ancestral village of Gwa'yi. Two Wolves at the Dawn of Time is the story of that painting, of earlier politically defiant rock art, and of "coppers," ceremonial shields that are a ... see all copies from $14.04! new only from $19.95! \| first editions

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