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Symbolic immortalityBook 1989 • Kan, Sergei
Tlingit • North America > Northwest Coast and California
In this monograph Kan focuses on the Tlingit mortuary complex of the nineteenth century. Kan considers the mortuary/ancestral complex to be the most conservative aspect of Tlingit culture and one of the main links between the past and the present. He...Indigenous leadership in northwestern Siberiaarticle 1997 • Golovnev, A. V. (Andreĭ Vladimirovich) & Kan, Sergei
Nenets • Asia > North Asia
This paper outlines the main characteristics of tradtional leadership in northwestern Siberia and the effects of Russian and Sovient colonial rule. It also discusses aspect of local leadership as observed by the author in four Nenets communities. The...