Sergei Kan: 2 books
Memory Eternal
Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
In Memory Eternal, Sergei Kan combines anthropology and history, anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s and to analyze the indigenous Orthodoxy that developed over the next 200 years. As a native speaker...
Symbolic Immortality
The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
Decades after its initial publication, Symbolic Immortality retains its status as the most comprehensive analysis of the mortuary practices of the Tlingit Indians of southeastern Alaska—or any other indigenous culture of the Northwest Coast. This updated and expanded edition furthers our understanding...