We intend to explore the question of meaning in Kwakiutl art dating from the turn of the century, by relating the art to a basic division in Kwakiutl ritual and culture between baxus (secular) and …

The Milwaukee Public Museum's (MPM) collection of Kwakiutl masks is among the finest of its kind in the world, containing many pieces the likes of which cannot be found elsewhere.

Amber Wutich, Asher Rosinger, Alexandra Brewis, Melissa Beresford, Sera Young, Water sharing is a distressing form of reciprocity: Shame, upset, anger, and conflict over water in twenty cross‐cultural …

Sep 30, 2001 · PDF | Historical anthropological study of politics of identity among Kwakiutl First Nations during colonization to the present.

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Title and statement of responsibility area Title proper Structural Patterning in Kwakiutl Art and Ritual

En France, Claude Lévi-Strauss ouvre la voie aux approches structurales de l’art en cherchant à déceler une « logique des formes » propre à l’esprit humain, dont le fonctionnement procède par oppositions …

Feb 8, 2019 · This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and...

Kwakiutl history may be divided into four periods: the Contact period, extending from the indefinite past to period, 1792 to 1849; the Potlatch period, 1849 to the early Potlatch period, from the early 1920's …

The following Kwakiutl texts deal with dreams and with information relating to the social organization of the tribe. Since the expense of composition has risen enormously during the last few years, the …