Papers presented at the Northwest Coast Ethnology Conference held in Paris, France in June 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-496) and index.

Reflections on Northwest Coast ethnology / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Text, symbol, and tradition in Northwest Coast ethnology from Franz Boas to Claude Lévi-Strauss / Regna Darnell -- Becoming an anthropologist : my debt to European and other scholars who influenced me / Frederica de Laguna -- Crossing boundaries : homage to Frederica de Laguna / Marie-Françoise Guédon -- When the Northwest Coast haunts French anthropology : a discrete but lasting presence / Marie Mauzé -- Structuralism at the University of British Columbia, 1969 onward / Pierre Maranda -- Lévi-Straussian structuralism on the Northwest Coast / Marjorie Myers Halpin -- Asdiwal : surveying the ethnographic ground / Margaret Seguin Anderson -- "Some mysterious means of fortune" : a look at North Pacific Coast oral history / Judith Berman -- The audible light in the eyes : in honor of Claude Lévi-Strauss / Robert Bringhurst -- Voices of one's life / Martine J. Reid and Daisy Sewid-Smith -- "It's only half a mile from savagery to civilization" : American tourists and the southeastern Alaska natives in the late 19th century / Sergei Kan -- "A magic place" : the Northwest Coast Indian Hall at the American Museum of Natural History / Ira Jacknis -- Evolving concepts of Tlingit identity and clan / Richard and Nora Marks Dauenhauer -- The intention of tradition : contemporary contexts and contests of the hamat'sa dance / Aaron Glass -- Rereading the ethnographic record : the problem of justice in the Coast Salish world / Bruce G. Miller -- Whither the expert witness : anthropology in the post-Delgamuukw courtroom / Daniel L. Boxberger.

"Defining ourselves through baskets" : museum autoethnography and the Makah Cultural and Research Center / Patricia Pierce Erikson -- The geography of Tlingit character / Thomas F. Thornton -- Thirteen ways of looking at a landscape / Michael E. Harkin -- Contemporary Makah whaling / Janine Bowechop.