How To Use Potlatch In A Sentence
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American Indian practice of 'potlatch' - a ritual ceremony in which the chiefs of rival tribes competed to destroy ever greater quantities of their own possessions.
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In the potlatches of the Chinook, Nootka, and other Pacific Northwest peoples, for example, chiefs vied to give the most blankets and other valuables.
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Known as the potlatch feast, it was an occasion on which some of the more affluent members of the tribe went so far as to bankrupt themselves in order to demonstrate the extent of their openhandedness.
Death in Winter
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The curious custom of the "potlatch" -- a man invites his friends and neighbors to a gathering and makes them magnificent presents, his reputation being great in proportion to the extent of his gifts -- appears to be a device for laying up property; the host in his turn receives presents from friends and neighbors.
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV
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Take the widespread tribal custom of potlatch, for example, where gifts are exchanged between families or communities.
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Social Darwinism should be made to work in reverse - those that have too much should be forced to hold a potlatch and divest themselves of their loot with those who have nothing.
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Perhaps the most familiar example of a gift culture is that of the native Americans of the Pacific Northwest such as the Kwakiutl and their famous potlatch ceremonies.
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And on this chilly Friday afternoon, the group is creating button blankets, traditionally used in First Nations ceremonies such as the potlatch.
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Never a whimper; never a pick-me-up-and-carry me .... never a I-told-you-so," and, Tommy says, the Siwash woman told him, "I'd sooner be flat-bellied of hunger and be your woman, Tommy, than have a potlatch every day and be Chief George's klooch.
“The way of a man with a maid may be too wonderful to know. . .”
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Fox holds a potlatch to signalize his marriage to Lit-Lit and she, "tearfully shy and frightened, is bedecked by her husband with a new calico dress, splendidly beaded mocassins, a gorgeous silk handkerchief over her raven hair, a purple scarf about her throat, brass earrings and finger-rings, and a whole pint of pinchbeck jewelry, including a Waterbury watch.
“I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .”
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In addition, I participated extensively in silviculture work, potlatches, hunting and trapping expeditions, and political and community meetings.
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Anthropologists have long been intrigued by "potlatch" - roughly, competitive gift giving - an economic behavior exhibited among tribes of the Pacific Northwest.
Nancy Scola: Debt and Development, Presidential-Style
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PS: Yeah, kids: I saw the Democratic flash poll, and I saw that the current state of the potlatch is at, what, $750K at this point?
Ben Smith: Wilson wins? - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
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In the society of survival, where the agonistic and vertiginous play of the potlatch is displaced by accumulation, an awareness of this has a deleterious effect on humanity.
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The consumerist potlatch is especially striking because the brand names are nearly all American.
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Potlatch means "a giving," and John Fox's intention was to signalize his marriage with Lit-lit by a potlatch as generous as she was good - looking.
THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT
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As my client knew, a potlatch was a Native American custom in the Northwest, a feast at which prosperous members of the community sought prestige not by having wealth, but by giving it away.
Craig K. Comstock: After the American Dream
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Collars were ceremonial regalia among the Tlingit, and there are many period photographs of them being worn at potlatches and other special ceremonies.
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Many sources describe the potlatch as a ceremony for the purpose of wealth display.
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He was an anthropologist who worked on the potlatch originally and became fascinated with these cycles by which a thing had value, lost value, regained value.
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We arrived in the middle of winter to participate in that village's annual Stick Dance, a weeklong ceremony for the dead that culminates in a traditional potlatch.
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The Inuit who held the potlatch would often give away his most valuable possessions at the ceremony.
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This potlatch feast demonstrated social status and wealth.
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Fox holds a potlatch to signalize his marriage to Lit-Lit and she, "tearfully shy and frightened, is bedecked by her husband with a new calico dress, splendidly beaded mocassins, a gorgeous silk handkerchief over her raven hair, a purple scarf about her throat, brass earrings and finger-rings, and a whole pint of pinchbeck jewelry, including a Waterbury watch.
“I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .”
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‘Potluck’ is derived from the word potlatch, a special occasion of many West Coast First Nations peoples.
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Some cultures have potlatches; others prize spirituality.
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Fox holds a potlatch to signalize his marriage to Lit-Lit and she, "tearfully shy and frightened, is bedecked by her husband with a new calico dress, splendidly beaded mocassins, a gorgeous silk handkerchief over her raven hair, a purple scarf about her throat, brass earrings and finger-rings, and a whole pint of pinchbeck jewelry, including a Waterbury watch.
“I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .”
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S'pose some time me _mamook_ sick, me feel all same oleman -- no more grub stop, no more smokin 'stop -- mebbyso all rancher _potlatch_ grub, _potlatch_ smokin', send doctin ', send med'cin'?
Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters
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This kind of destruction should not be confounded with the burning of valuables during a potlatch.
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In New Guinea they have been used as a form of currency and in the Indian cultures of the Americas they were included in the ancient custom of potlatch, a system of gift-exchange amongst chiefs.
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Perhaps the opensource software movement is actually a contemporary form of potlatch, in which one gains prestige by the extravagance of the resources one ‘wastes.’
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In his Whitehorse office he has an aluminum coffee pot, a potlatch gift from a gathering in 1998.
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An ideal place for a potlatch, the ultimate community bond.
FOLLY
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Patrick, dressed in a cedar-bark shirt and basket-like hat, filled us in on the Northwest Indians, whaling, copper mining, totem poles and potlatch ceremonies.
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Potlatch is a Haida word referring to a huge party during which the most wealthy man in the area works hard at gaining even more prestige by giving away everything he owns.
*Another* faux-populist Lefty group for potlatching money? | RedState
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I'd sooner be flat-bellied of hunger and be your woman, Tommy, than have a potlatch every day and be Chief George's klooch. '
Siwash
