List of bibliographical materials on the potlatch

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.

General

* Barnett, Homer G. (1938) "The Nature of the Potlatch." "American Anthropologist." vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 349-358.
* Bracken, Christopher (1997) "The Potlatch Papers: A Colonial Case History." Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
* Cole, Douglas, and Ira Chaikin (1990) "An Iron Hand upon the People: The Law against the Potlatch on the Northwest Coast." Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre. ISBN 0-295-97050-2
*Mauss, Marcel (2002) "The Gift." London: Routledge.
* Rosman, Abraham, and Paula G. Rubel (1971) "Feasting with Mine Enemy: Rank and Exchange among Northwest Coast Societies." Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press.
* Rubel, Paula G., and Abraham Rosman (1983) "The Evolution of Exchange Structures and Ranking: Some Northwest Coast and Athapaskan Examples." "Journal of Anthropological Research," vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 1-25.

Tlingit

* de Laguna, Frederica (1972) "Under Mount Saint Elias: The History and Culture of the Yakutat Tlingit." Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
* Emmons, George Thornton (1991) "The Tlingit Indians." Ed. by Frederica de Laguna. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
* Kan, Sergei (1989) "Symbolic Immortality: The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century." Washington: Smithsonian Books. ISBN 1-56098-309-4.
* Dauenhauer, Nora Marks, and Richard Dauenhauer (eds.) (1990) "Haa Tuwanáagu Yís, for Healing Our Spirit: Tlingit Oratory." (Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, vol. 2.) Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Haida

* Boelscher, Marianne (1988) "The Curtain Within: Haida Social and Mythical Discourse." Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
* Stearns, Mary Lee (1981) "Haida Culture in Custody: The Masset Band." Seattle: University of Washington Press.
* Steltzer, Ulli (1984) "A Haida Potlatch." Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Tsimshianic-speakers

* Adams, John W. (1973) "The Gitksan Potlatch: Population Flux, Resource Ownership and Reciprocity." Toronto: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston of Canada.
* Beynon, William (2000) "Potlatch at Gitsegukla: William Beynon’s 1945 Field Notebooks." Ed. by Margaret Anderson and Marjorie Halpin. Vancouver: UBC Press.
* Boas, Franz (1916) "Tsimshian Mythology." Washington: Government Printing Office.
* Daly, Richard (2005) "Our Box Was Full: An Ethnography for the Delgamuukw Plaintiffs." Vancouver: UBC Press.
* "Fur Trader, A" (Peter Skene Ogden) (1933) "Traits of American Indian Life and Character." San Francisco: Grabhorn Press. Reprinted, Dover Publications, 1995. (Ch. 4 is the earliest known description of a Nisga'a potlatch.)
* Garfield, Viola E. (1939) "Tsimshian Clan and Society." "University of Washington Publications in Anthropology," vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 167-340.
* Glavin, Terry (1990) "A Death Feast in Dimlahamid." Vancouver: New Star Books.
* Grumet, Robert Stephen (1975) "Changes in Coast Tsimshian Redistributive Activities in the Fort Simpson Region of British Columbia, 1788-1862." "Ethnohistory," vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 294-318.
* Hoyt-Goldsmith, Diane (1997) "Potlatch: A Tsimshian Celebration." New York: Holiday House.
* McDonald, James A. (1990) "Poles, Potlatching, and Public Affairs: The Use of Aboriginal Culture in Development." "Culture," vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 103-120.
* McDonald, James A. (1995) "Building a Moral Community: Tsimshian Potlatching, Implicit Knowledge and Everyday Experiences." "Cultural Studies," vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 125-144.
* McDonald, James A. (2003) "People of the Robin: The Tsimshian of Kitsumkalum." CCI Press and Alberta ACADRE Network.
* McNeary, Stephen A. (1976) "Where Fire Came Down: Social and Economic Life of the Niska." Ph.D. diss., Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Penn.
* Pierce, William Henry (1933) "From Potlatch to Pulpit." Vancouver: Vancouver Bindery.
* Roth, Christopher F. (2002) "Goods, Names, and Selves: Rethinking the Tsimshian Potlatch." "American Ethnologist," vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 123-150.
* Seguin, Margaret (ed.) (1984) "The Tsimshian: Images of the Past: Views for the Present." Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
* Seguin, Margaret (1985) "Interpretive Contexts for Traditional and Current Coast Tsimshian Feasts." Ottawa: National Museums of Canada.
* Seguin, Margaret (1986) "Understanding Tsimshian 'Potlatch.'" In: "Native Peoples: The Canadian Experience," ed. by R. Bruce Morrison and C. Roderick Wilson, pp. 473-500. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
* Vaughn, J. Daniel (1984) "Tsimshian Potlatch and Society: Examining a Structural Analysis." In: "The Tsimshian and Their Neighbors of the North Pacific Coast," ed. by Jay Miller and Carol M. Eastman, pp. 58-68. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Kwakwaka'wakw

* Benedict, Ruth (1934) "Patterns of Culture." Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
* Boas, Franz (1897) "The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians." Pp. 311-738 In: "Report of the U.S. National Museum for 1895," pp. 311-738. Washington.
* Boas, Franz (1966) "Kwakiutl Ethnography." Ed. by Helen Codere. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
* Codere, Helen (1950) "Fighting with Property: A Study of Kwakiutl Potlatching and Warfare, 1792-1930." New York: J. J. Augustin.
* Codere, Helen (1956) "The Amiable Side of Kwakiutl Life: The Potlatch and the Play Potlatch." "American Anthropologist," vol. 28, pp. 334-351.
* Drucker, Philip, and Robert F. Heizer (1967) "To Make My Name Good: A Reexamination of the Southern Kwakiutl Potlatch." Berkeley: University of California Press.
* Goldman, Irving (1975) "The Mouth of Heaven: An Introduction to Kwakiutl Religious Thought." Huntington, N.Y.: Robert E. Krieger Publishing Company.
* Graeber, David (2001) "Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams." New York: Palgrave.
* Harkin, Michael E. (1990) "Mortuary Practices and the Category of the Person among the Heiltsuk." "Arctic Anthropology," vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 87-108.
* Masco, Joseph (1995) "'It Is a Strict Law That Bids Us Dance': Cosmologies, Colonialism, Death and Ritual Authority in the Kwakwaka'wakw Potlatch, 1849-1922." "Comparative Studies in Society and History," vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 41-75.
* Olson, Ronald L. (1950) "Black Market in Prerogatives among the Northern Kwakiutl." "Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers," vol. 1, pp. 78-80.
* Spradley, James P. (1969) "Guests Never Leave Hungry: The Autobiography of James Sewid, a Kwakiutl Indian." New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.
* Walens, Stanley (1981) "Feasting with Cannibals: An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology." Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
* Wolf, Eric R. (1999) "Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis." Berkeley: University of California Press.

Nuu-chah-nulth

* Clutesi, George (1969) "Potlatch." Sidney, B.C.: Gray's Publishing.
* Drucker, Philip (1951) "The Northern and Central Nootkan Tribes." Washington: United States Government Printing Office.
* Jewitt, John R. (1815) "A Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt, only survivor of the crew of the ship Boston, during a captivity of nearly three years among the savages of Nootka Sound: with an account of the manners, mode of living, and religious opinions of the natives." [http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?id=328920feff&doc=29581 digital copy]
* Sapir, Edward (1916) "The Social Organization of the West Coast Tribes." In: "Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada for 1915," third series, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 355-374.

Coast Salish

* Suttles, Wayne (1960) "Affinal Ties, Subsistence, and Prestige among the Coast Salish." "American Anthropologist," vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 296-305.

Columbia River

* French, Kathrine S. (1955) "Culture Segments and Variation in Contemporary Social Ceremonialism on the Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon." Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Political Science, Columbia University, New York.

ee also

* Potlatch
* Anti-Potlatch Laws