Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions From: Anthropologica | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: Ebert, Mark | Copyright Wilfrid Laurier University 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Marie Mauzé, Michael E. Harkin and Sergei Kan, eds., Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions, Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2004, 508 pages.

Reviewer: Mark Ebert

University of Victoria

The book Coming to Shore is a collection of papers that grew out of a June 2000 conference in Paris and represents, as the editors suggest in their introduction, "the culmination of a several-year collaboration among many of the most prominen...

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