Article(electronic)#12021
Potlatch : notes sur les usages d'un concept / Potlatch : Notes on the Uses of a Concept
In: Asdiwal: revue genevoise d'anthropologie et d'histoire des religions, Volume 16, Issue 1, p. 63-71
Ethnology has for several decades begun a critique of the notion of potlatch ; however, the influence of the Maussian paradigm on the human sciences, basing the notion on a biased view of the colonial situation prevailing in nineteenth century Canada, is still significant. We will question the history and reception of the discourses surrounding a ceremony that has now become cultural heritage.
