Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions and Visions.(Book review)

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MAUZE, MARIE, MICHAEL E. HARKIN & SERGEI KAN (eds). Coming to shore: Northwest Coast ethnology, traditions and visions. xxxviii, 508 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. London, Lincoln: Univ. Nebraska Press, 2005. [pounds sterling]19.95 (paper)

First presented at a Paris 2000 conference on Northwest Coast ethnology by French, Canadian, and US scholars, the twenty papers in this collection are intended to represent the most comprehensive overview since the 1990 Northwest Coast volume of the Handbook of North American Indians edited by Wayne Suttles. The conference was originally ...

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