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For other uses, see Potlatch (disambiguation).
The Kwakwaka'wakw continue the practice of potlatch. Illustrated here is Wawadit'la in Thunderbird Park, Victoria, BC, (aka Mungo Martin House) a Kwakwaka'wakw "big house" built by Chief Mungo Martin in 1953. Very wealthy, that is, prominent, hosts would have a longhouse specifically for potlatching and for housing guests. A potlatch is a highly complex event or ceremony among certain Indigenous peoples in North America, including nations on the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States and the Canadian province of British Columbia that has been practiced for thousands of years.[citation needed] Such peoples included the Haida, Nuxalk, Tlingit, Tsimshian, Nuu-chah-nulth, Kwakwaka'wakw and Coast Salish nations.[citation needed] potlatch may refer to: Potlatch, a ceremony among Indigenous peoples in North America Potlatch Corporation, a Fortune 1000 sustainable forest paper and paperboard producer Potlatch, Idaho, a town in the United States Potlatch State Park, 57-acre camping shoreline park on Hood Canal, Washington State, USA Category: ...
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The Kwakwakawakw (also Kwakiutl) are an Indigenous nation, numbering about 5,500, who live in British Columbia on northern Vancouver Island and the mainland. ...
Thunderbird Park is a park in Victoria, British Columbia located next to the Royal British Columbia Museum. ...
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Chief Anotklosh of the Taku Tribe, ca. ...
The Pacific Northwest from space The Pacific Northwest, abbreviated PNW, or PacNW is a region in the northwest of North America. ...
Motto: Splendor sine occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Official languages English Government - Lieutenant-Governor Steven Point - Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 36 - Senate seats 6 Confederation July 20, 1871 (6th province) Area Ranked 5th - Total 944,735 km...
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The Nuxalk nation is an aboriginal people living in the area in and around Bella Coola, British Columbia. ...
A Tlingit totem pole in Ketchikan ca. ...
The Tsimshian, usually pronounced in English as // (SIM-shee-an), translated as People Inside the Skeena River, are Indigenous, or Native American and First Nation people who live around Terrace and Prince Rupert, on the north coast of British Columbia and the southernmost corner of Alaska on Annette Island. ...
The Nuu-chah-nulth (pronounced New-cha-nulth) (also formerly referred to as the Nootka, Nutka, Aht, West Coast, T’aat’aaqsapa, Nuuchahnulth) people are indigenous peoples of Canada. ...
The Kwakwakawakw (also Kwakiutl) are an Indigenous nation, numbering about 5,500, who live in British Columbia on northern Vancouver Island and the mainland. ...
The Coast Salish are a group of Salishan-speaking First Nations/Native American in British Columbia and Washington. ...
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The potlatch takes the form of governance, economy, social status and continuing spiritual practices. A potlatch, usually involving ceremony, includes celebration of births, rites of passages, weddings, funerals, puberty, and honoring of the deceased. Through political, economic and social exchange, it is a vital part of these Indigenous people's culture. Although protocol differs among the Indigenous nations, the potlatch could involve a feast, with music, dance, theatricality and spiritual ceremonies. The most sacred ceremonies are usually observed in the winter. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ...
Within it, hierarchical relations within and between clans, villages, and nations, are observed and reinforced through the distribution of wealth, dance performances, and other ceremonies. The Status of any given family is raised not by who has the most resources, but by who distributes the most resources. The host demonstrates their wealth and prominence through giving away the resources gathered for the event, which in turn prominent participants reciprocate when they hold their own potlatches. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
History Before the arrival of the Europeans, gifts included storable food (oolichan [candle fish] oil or dried food), canoes, sexual favors, and slaves among the very wealthy, but otherwise not income-generating assets such as resource rights. The influx of manufactured trade goods such as blankets and sheet copper into the Pacific Northwest caused inflation in the potlatch in the late eighteenth and earlier nineteenth centuries. Some groups, such as the Kwakwaka'wakw, used the potlatch as an arena in which highly competitive contests of status took place. In rare cases, goods were actually destroyed after being received. The catastrophic mortalities due to introduced diseases laid many inherited ranks vacant or open to remote or dubious claim—providing they could be validated—with a suitable potlatch.[1] Binomial name Thaleichthys pacificus Richardson, 1836 The eulachon, also hooligan or candlefish, is a small anadromous ocean fish, Thaleichthys pacificus, a smelt found along the Pacific coast of North America from northern California to Alaska. ...
The Kwakwakawakw (also Kwakiutl) are an Indigenous nation, numbering about 5,500, who live in British Columbia on northern Vancouver Island and the mainland. ...
The potlatch was a cultural practice much studied by ethnographers. "Potlatch is a festive event within a regional exchange system among tribes of the North pacific Coast of North America, including the Salish and Kwakiutl of Washington and British Columbia."[citation needed] Sponsors of a potlatch give away many useful items such as food, blankets, worked ornamental mediums of exchange called "coppers", and many other various items. In return, they earned prestige. To give a potlatch enhanced one’s reputation and validated social rank, the rank and requisite potlatch being proportional, both for the host and for the recipients by the gifts exchanged. Prestige increased with the lavishness of the potlatch, the value of the goods given away in it.
≠ Potlatch Ban ≠ Potlatching was made illegal in Canada in 1885[2] and the United States in the late nineteenth century, largely at the urging of missionaries and government agents who considered it "a worse than useless custom"[3] that was seen as wasteful, unproductive and injurious to the practitioners. The church also targeted the potlatch system as what appeared to be "demonic" and "satanic". Despite the ban, potlatching continued clandestinely for decades. Numerous nations petitioned the government to remove the law against a custom that they saw as no worse than Christmas, when friends were feasted and gifts were exchanged. As the potlatch became less of an issue in the twentieth century, the ban was dropped from the books, in the United States in 1934 and in Canada in 1951. It was also banned because this tradition was seen as a threat or competition to the christian belief.
Continuation The potlatch has fascinated and perhaps been misunderstood by Westerners for many years.[4] Thorstein Veblen's use of the ceremony in his book Theory of the Leisure Class made potlatching a symbol of "conspicuous consumption". Other authors such as Georges Bataille were struck by what they saw as the anarchic, communal nature of the potlatch's operation—it is for this reason that the organization Lettrist International named their review after the potlatch in the 1950s. Kim Stanley Robinson adopted the term in his Mars trilogy. Thorstein Bunde Veblen (born Tosten Bunde Veblen July 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929) was a Norwegian-American sociologist and economist and a founder, along with John R. Commons, of the Institutional economics movement. ...
The Theory of the Leisure Class is a book, first published in 1899, by the American economist Thorstein Veblen while he was a professor at the University of Chicago. ...
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In many parts of the world, communalism is a modern term that describes a broad range of social movements and social theories which are in some way centered upon the community. ...
The Lettrist International (LI) was the first breakaway group from Isidore Isous Lettrist Movement (LM). ...
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Etymology and Definition The name is derived from Chinook Jargon; every practicing Pacific Northwest language group has a variation. The Chinook Jargon word is a homonym having nothing to do with "pot" or "latch".[4] Coast Salish Lushootseed potlatching is xwsalikw, from xwɐš, "throw, broadcast, distribute goods", related to pús(u), "throw through the air, throw at".[5] The casting or throwing of suitable gifts is a part of a potlatch ceremony. Chinook Jargon was a trade language (or pidgin) of the Pacific Northwest, which spread quickly up the West Coast from Oregon, through Washington, British Columbia, and as far as Alaska. ...
The Coast Salish are a group of Salishan-speaking First Nations/Native American in British Columbia and Washington. ...
Lushootseed (also xwəlšucid, dxwləšúcid, Puget Salish, Puget Sound Salish, Skagit-Nisqually) is the language or dialect continuum of several Salish Native American groups of modern-day Washington state. ...
- n. [Chinook potlatch, pahtlatch, fr.Nootka pahchilt, pachalt, a gift.]
- 1. Among the Kwakiutl, Chimmesyan, and other Indians of the northwestern coast of North America, a ceremonial distribution by a man of gifts to his own and neighboring tribesmen, often, formerly, to his own impoverishment. Feasting, dancing, and public ceremonies accompany it.
- 2. Hence, a feast given to a large number of persons, often accompanied by gifts. [Colloq., Northwestern America]
- [Webster 1913 Suppl.][6]
See also Koha is a New Zealand Maori custom which can be translated as gift, donation, or remuneration. ...
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The Trobriand Islands are a 170 mi² archipelago of coral atolls off the eastern coast of New Guinea. ...
The Moka is a system of exchange in the Mt. ...
Sepik Coast exchange is the method of social networking and alliance in the Sepik Coast area of Papua New Guinea. ...
Guy Ernest Debord (December 28, 1931, in Paris – November 30, 1994, in Champot) was a writer, film maker, hypergraphist and founding member of the groups Lettrist International and Situationist International (SI). ...
The Situationist International (SI) was a small group of international political and artistic agitators with roots in Marxism, Lettrism and the early 20th century European artistic and political avant-gardes. ...
Reification (German: Verdinglichung, literally: thing-ification) is the consideration of an abstraction or an object as if it had human (pathetic fallacy) or living (reification fallacy) existence and abilities; at the same time it implies the thingification of social relations. ...
A gift economy is an economic system in which goods and services are given without any explicit agreement for immediate or future quid pro quo. ...
The event is named after its Saturday night ritual, the burning of a wooden effigy. ...
References - ^ (1) Boyd (2) Cole & Chaikin
- ^ An Act further to amend "The Indian Act, 1880," S.C. 1884 (47 Vict.), c. 27, s. 3.
- ^ Historical quote in Cole & Chaikin
- ^ a b Cole & Chaikin
- ^ (1) Bates, Hess, & Hilbert pp. xii–xiv, 164, 340
(2) See International Phonetic Alphabet for pronunciation, or Duwamish (tribe) #footnote for a brief summary. - ^ (1) The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
(2) "[O]ften, formerly, to his own impoverishment": At the time of writing the 1913 Webster, the economics of the potlatch in context were widely misunderstood in non-Native society. - Bates, Dawn; Hess, Thom; Hilbert, Vi; map by Dassow, Laura (1994). in Bates, Dawn, ed.: Lushootseed dictionary. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press. ISBN (alk. paper).
Completely reformatted, greatly revised and expanded update of Hess, Thom, Dictionary of Puget Salish (University of Washington Press, 1976). - Boyd, Robert (1999). The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline Among Northwest Coast Indians,. Seattle and Vancouver: University of Washington Press and University of British Columbia Press. ISBN (alk. paper), ISBN.
- Mauss, Marcel ([1925] 1990). The Gift. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN. Retrieved on not recorded.
Translation of Essai sur le don.
Author bio "Mauss, Marcel", Anthropology Biography Web, EMuseum Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Reference searched 21 August 2006. Articles with similar titles include the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabetâ€. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ...
Duwamish (the People of the Inside) is a Native American tribe in western Washington. ...
Marcel Mauss (May 10, 1872 – February 10, 1950) was a French sociologist best known for his role in elaborating on and securing the legacy of his uncle Émile Durkheim and the Année Sociologique. ...
is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Below is a list of books and sources about the potlatch, an Indigenous ceremony from the north west cost of Canada, and the United States. ...
External links - Potlatch An exhibition from the Peabody Museum, Harvard University.
- Money An analysis of Potlatch and modern versions of the same from a pyschohistorical perspective. Not neutral point of view, but does provide references.
- University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – Oliver S. Van Olinda Photographs A collection of 420 photographs depicting life on Vashon Island, Whidbey Island, Seattle and other communities around Puget Sound, Washington, from the 1880s through the 1930s. This collection provides a glimpse of early pioneer activities, industries and occupations, recreation, street scenes, ferries and boat traffic at the turn of the century. Also included are a few photographs of Native American activities such as documentation of a potlatch on Whidbey Island.
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