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The Potlatch Papers (Paperback, New edition)
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The Potlatch Papers (Paperback, New edition)
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Variously described as an exchange of gifts, a destruction of
property, a system of banking, and a struggle for prestige, the
potlatch is one of the founding concepts of anthropology. Some
researchers even claim to have discovered traces of the potlatch in
all the economies of the world. However, as the author of this text
shows in this closely-argued work, the potlatch was in fact
invented by the 19th-century Canadian law that sought to destroy
it. In addition to giving the world its own potlatch, the law also
generated a random collection of "potlatch papers" dating from the
1860s to the 1930s. Bracken analyzes these documents - some
canonical, like Franz Boas's ethnographies, others unpublished and
little known - to catch a colonialist discourse in the act of
constructing fictions about certain "first nations" and then
deploying those fictions against them. Rather than referring to
objects that already exist, the "potlatch papers" instead gave
themselves something to refer to: a mirror in which to observe not
"the Indian," but "the European."
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