Kwakiutl Ethnography
- ISBN-10
- 0226062368
- ISBN-13
- 9780226062365
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 439
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1966
- Publisher
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press
- Authors
- Franz Boas, Helen Codere
Description
Presents an unfinished Boas manuscript and selected publications in which the renowned anthropologist records his observations of such aspects of Kwakiutl culture as social and economic organization, religion, and art
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