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To Make my Name Good: A Reexamination of the Southern Kwakiutl Potlatch
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To Make My Name Good: A Reexamination of the Southern Kwakiutl Potlatch offers a definitive, lucid account of one of the Northwest Coast’s most discussed—and most misunderstood—institutions. Drawing on hitherto unpublished field notes, new translations, and extended interviews with master informants Charles E. Nowell and Ed Whonnock, Philip Drucker and Robert F. Heizer revisit the Southern Kwakiutl (Kwagyul) potlatch to show how it actually worked in practice. Situating their analysis again...