Interweaving Coast Salish cultural systems : the collected works of Pamela Thorsen Amoss

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Interweaving Coast Salish cultural systems : the collected works of Pamela Thorsen Amoss / edited by Jay Miller and Darby C. Stapp.

Amoss, Pamela, (author.). Miller, Jay (Anthropologist), (editor.). Stapp, Darby C., 1954- (editor.).

Record details

ISBN: 9781541076709
ISBN: 1541076702
Physical Description: xii, 222 pages : illustrations, map ; 28 cm.
Publisher: Richland, WA : Journal of Northwest Anthropology, 2017.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: "Appendix A: Pamela T. Amoss publications": pages 219-222.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-218).
Formatted Contents Note:: Foreword / Maureen and Roy Carlson -- Preface / Jay Miller -- Editor's preface / Darby C. Stapp and Jay Miller -- Chapter sources -- Part I. My intellectual history -- Part II. Religions. Chapter 1. The fish god gave us: the first salmon ceremony revived -- Chapter 2. The indian shaker church -- Chapter 3. Resurrection, healing, and "the shake": the story of John and Mary Slocum -- Chapter 4. Symbolic substitution in the indian shaker church -- Chapter 5. Strategies of reorientation: the contribution of contemporary winter dancing to Coast Salish identity and solidarity -- Part III. Relationships. Chapter 6. Preface to Coast Salish spirit dancing -- Chapter 7. The Nooksack people -- Chapter 8. Coast Salish elders -- Chapter 9. Cultural centrality and prestige for the elderly: the Coast Salish case -- Chapter 10. The power of secrecy among the Coast Salish -- Chapter 11. A little more kin, and less than kind: the ambiguous Norwest coast dog -- Chapter 12. Hair of the dog: unraveling pre-contact Coast Salish social stratification -- Part IV. Reviews. Chapter 13. Melville Jacobs -- Chapter 14. Erna Gunther (1896-1982) -- Chapter 15. Myron Eells and the Puget Sound Indians -- Chapter 17. Dictionary of Puget Salish -- Chapter 18. Ancient Modocs of California and Oregon -- Chapter 19. Valley of the spirits -- Chapter 20. The Upper Skagit Indians of Western Washington -- Chapter 21. The Salish people: the local contribution of Charles Hill-Tout -- Part V. Reflections -- Part VI. References -- Appendix. Pamela T. Amoss Publications.