Theory and Practice: Essays presented to Gene Weltfish
- ISBN-10
- 3110803216
- ISBN-13
- 9783110803211
- Series
- Theory and Practice
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 374
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1980-01-01
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter
- Author
- Stanley Diamond
Description
Far more readable and comprehensible ethnographies have been written, but none matches the epically proportioned Kwakiutl ethnography for sheer verisimilitude, and for the deep access it offers to the Kwakiutl mind before it had been ...
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