Potlatch
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| The '''potlatch''' is a [[festival]] or [[ceremony]] practiced among [[Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast]]. At these gatherings a family or [[hereditary]] leader hosts guests in their family's house and hold a feast for their guests. The main purpose of the potlatch is the re-distribution and [[Reciprocity (cultural anthropology)|reciprocity]] of wealth. | The '''potlatch''' is a [[festival]] or [[ceremony]] practiced among [[Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast]]. At these gatherings a family or [[hereditary]] leader hosts guests in their family's house and hold a feast for their guests. The main purpose of the potlatch is the re-distribution and [[Reciprocity (cultural anthropology)|reciprocity]] of wealth. | ||
| - | [[French sociologist]] [[Marcel Mauss]]'s most famous work ''[[The Gift (book)|The Gift]]'', studies [[potlatch]], reciprocity and gift economies. | + | [[French sociologist]] [[Marcel Mauss]]'s most famous work ''[[The Gift (book)|The Gift]]'', studies potlatch, reciprocity and gift economies. It was first published in the ''[[L'Année Sociologique]]'' in [[1923]]-[[1924]]. |
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- A ceremony amongst certain Native American peoples of the Pacific northwest in which gifts are bestowed upon guests and personal property is destroyed in a show of wealth and generosity.
The potlatch is a festival or ceremony practiced among Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. At these gatherings a family or hereditary leader hosts guests in their family's house and hold a feast for their guests. The main purpose of the potlatch is the re-distribution and reciprocity of wealth.
French sociologist Marcel Mauss's most famous work The Gift, studies potlatch, reciprocity and gift economies. It was first published in the L'Année Sociologique in 1923-1924.
See also
- Koha, a related concept among the Māori
- Kula ring, a similar concept in the Trobriand Islands (Oceania)
- Moka, another similar concept in Papua New Guinea
- Sepik Coast exchange, yet another similar concept in Papua New Guinea
- Guy Debord, French Situationist writer on the subject of potlatch and commodity reification.
- Gift economy
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