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The Gift of the Middle Tanana
Dene Pre-Colonial History in the Alaskan Interior
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2022
Summary
The Middle Tanana Valley in Alaska remains one of the most important regions of the continent for archaeological research. In The Gift of the Middle Tanana: Dene Pre-Colonial History in the Alaskan Interior, Gerad Smith explores the history, ethnography, and archaeological record of the Native people in this region during the late Holocene. Smith creates an interpretive framework informed by Alaskan Native traditions, focusing on traditional place names and the deep-play rituals of reciprocity. Smith sets forth the case that the local themes and oral traditions of the potlatch are better understood not as singular ceremonial events but as a mechanism of regional social cohesion that dictated everyday life. The Gift of the Middle Tanana illustrates how the role of reciprocal deep-play shaped a traditional society that has lasted over a thousand years.
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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-5476-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-5477-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
302
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Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
Chapter One The Middle Tanana People Modern and Historical Identities No access Pages 11 - 38
Chapter Two The Ethnographic Reconstruction of the Past The Middle Tanana People and a Theory of Deep Reciprocity No access Pages 39 - 92
Chapter Three Complexity and Optimality in the Archaeological Record No access Pages 93 - 106
Chapter Four The Traditional Place Names and Language of the Middle Tanana Dene No access Pages 107 - 134
Chapter Five Understanding Archaeological Research No access Pages 135 - 156
Chapter Six The Holocene Environmental Context of the Middle Tanana No access Pages 157 - 170
Chapter Seven The Middle Tanana Dene and the Archaeological Traditions of the Taiga No access Pages 171 - 216
Chapter Eight Thinking about Raw Materials No access Pages 217 - 228
Chapter Nine Identifying Reciprocity and Meaning in the Material-CulturalRecord No access Pages 229 - 240
