Table of Contents:
  • Reflections on Northwest Coast ethnology / Claude Lévi-Strauss
  • Text, symbol, and tradition in Northwest Coast ethnology from Franz Boas to Claude Lévi-Strauss / Regna Darnell
  • Becoming an anthropologist : my debt to European and other scholars who influenced me / Frederica de Laguna
  • Crossing boundaries : homage to Frederica de Laguna / Marie-Françoise Guédon
  • When the Northwest Coast haunts French anthropology : a discrete but lasting presence / Marie Mauzé
  • Structuralism at the University of British Columbia, 1969 onward / Pierre Maranda
  • Lévi-Straussian structuralism on the Northwest Coast / Marjorie Myers Halpin
  • Asdiwal : surveying the ethnographic ground / Margaret Seguin Anderson
  • "Some mysterious means of fortune" : a look at North Pacific Coast oral history / Judith Berman
  • The audible light in the eyes : in honor of Claude Lévi-Strauss / Robert Bringhurst
  • Voices of one's life / Martine J. Reid and Daisy Sewid-Smith
  • "It's only half a mile from savagery to civilization" : American tourists and the southeastern Alaska natives in the late 19th century / Sergei Kan
  • "A magic place" : the Northwest Coast Indian Hall at the American Museum of Natural History / Ira Jacknis
  • Evolving concepts of Tlingit identity and clan / Richard and Nora Marks Dauenhauer
  • The intention of tradition : contemporary contexts and contests of the hamat'sa dance / Aaron Glass
  • Rereading the ethnographic record : the problem of justice in the Coast Salish world / Bruce G. Miller
  • Whither the expert witness : anthropology in the post-Delgamuukw courtroom / Daniel L. Boxberger.
  • "Defining ourselves through baskets" : museum autoethnography and the Makah Cultural and Research Center / Patricia Pierce Erikson
  • The geography of Tlingit character / Thomas F. Thornton
  • Thirteen ways of looking at a landscape / Michael E. Harkin
  • Contemporary Makah whaling / Janine Bowechop.