Potlatch at Gitsegukla : William Beynon's 1945 Field Notebooks (Paperback)
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| Management number | 238090482 | Release Date | 2026/07/11 | List Price | US$21.50 | Model Number | 238090482 | ||
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William Beynon was born in 1888 in Victoria to a Welsh father and a Tsimshian mother. He was an accomplished ethnographer and had a long career documenting the traditions of the Tsimshian, Nisga'a, and Gitksan. In 1945 he attended and actively participated in five days of potlatches and totem pole raisings at Gitksan village of Gitsegukla. There he compiled four notebooks containing detailed and often verbatim information about the events he witnessed. For over 50 years these notebooks have seen limited circulation among specialists, who have long recognized them as the most perceptive and complete account of potlatching ever recorded.
| Book format | Paperback |
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| Fiction/nonfiction | Non-Fiction |
| Genre | History |
| Publication date | October, 2000 |
| Pages | 296 |
| Edition | Standard Edition |
| Publisher | University of British Columbia Press |
| Original languages | English |
| Language | English |
| Edu focus | Social Science |
| Is collectible | N |
| Editor | Marjorie M Halpin |
| Binding type | Perfect Binding |
| Assembled product dimensions (l x w x h) | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.10 Inches |
| Assembled product weight | 0.94 lb |
| Bisac subject heading | Social Science |
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