Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. An Introduction to the Area
5. The Indian Tribes of the North Pacific Coast 1
6. Primary Forms of Material Culture: Living and Eating 8
7. Boatmanship 17
8. Nootka Whaling 22
9. Social Organization
10. The Social Organization of the West Coast Tribes 28
11. Social Organization of the Haida 49
12. The Ancestral Family of the Bella Coola 58
13. The Potlatch
14. The Potlatch 72
15. The Nature of the Potlatch 81
16. Fighting With Property 92
17. Some Variations on the Potlatch 102
18. Black Market in Prerogatives Among the Northern Kwakiutl 108
19. Git-la’n Chief’s Potlatch 112
20. Daniel Cranmer’s Potlatch 116
21. Lagius Gives Me a Copper 119
22. Rank and Class: Viewpoints
23. Rank, Wealth, and Kinship in Northwest Coast Society 134
24. Kwakiutl Society: Rank Without Class 147
25. Boas and the Neglect of Commoners 159
26. Private Knowledge, Morality, and Social Classes Among the Coast Salish 168
27. Ceremonialism
28. The Winter Ceremonial 180
29. Charlie Nowell Recalls the Winter Ceremonies 198
30. Deviance and Normality
31. Crime and Punishment in Tlingit Society 209
32. The Patterns of the Culture 223
33. The Amiable Side of Kwakiutl Life: The Potlatch and the Play Potlatch 229
34. The Amiable Side of Patterns of Culture 255
35. Appendix 261
36. Suggestions for Further Reading 267
37. Note on the Editor 269
38. The Contributors 270