Lexicographical Neighbors of Potlatching
Literary usage of Potlatching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Coppers of the Northwest Coast Indians: Their Origin, Development, and by Carol F. Jopling (1989)
"Succession Although potlatching was essential to many occasions, ... Successful
potlatching smoothed the way for the spirit. The dead were remembered in ..."
2. The Coppers of the Northwest Coast Indians: Their Origin, Development, and by Carol F. Jopling (1989)
"Succession Although potlatching was essential to many occasions, a Copper was
present only at ... Successful potlatching smoothed the way for the spirit. ..."
3. Official Report of Debates by Canada Parliament. Senate (1884)
"Improvident habits are, of course, too common among the Indians, but they are
fostered sadly too much by the "potlatching" system \ indeed, ..."
4. Primitive Society by Robert Harry Lowie (1920)
"Sapir notes "cases in which men of lower rank have by dint of reckless potlatching
gained the ascendancy over their betters, gradually displacing them in ..."
5. Primitive Society by Robert Harry Lowie (1920)
"... rank have by dint of reckless potlatching gained the ascendancy over their
betters, gradually displacing them in one or more of the privileges belonging ..."
6. Early Civilization: An Introduction to Anthropology by Alexander Goldenweiser (1922)
"They vie with each other in potlatching, war exploits, and the possession of
powers supernaturally derived. But they are neither administrators nor ..."
7. Report of the Annual Meeting (1891)
"... with last year,' he states, ' is ascribed by Mr. Agent Lomas to the fact that
most of the natives have not collected property for potlatching purposes. ..."
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