Several Archaeological Accounts

Walens, Stanley. "The Weight of My Name Is a Mountain of Blankets: Potlatch Ceremonies." In Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, ed. Janet Catherine Berlo and Lee Anne Wilson, 184-95. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1993.

Walens synthesizes anthropological knowledge and interpretations of the potlatch ceremony for a general audience. He explicates the ceremony's philosophical basis and its integration into the people's spiritual and practical worldview. The philosophy derives from the notion that the mutual economic and social dependence of the people is a reflection of the interdependence prevailing throughout the cosmos. Rather than a mere seeking after prestige, therefore, the potlatch is a ceremonial recapitulation of the uni

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