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A ceremonial feast or festival of the Indians of the northwest coast given for the display of wealth to validate or advance individual tribal position or social status and marked by the host's lavish destruction of personal property and an ostentatious di

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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.
  • A potlatch is a festival ceremony practiced by many of Canada's indigenous peoples, including the Kwakwaka'wakw and Salish cultures.
  • A "potlatch" is a west coast native ceremony in which prestige is gained in the band through the giving away of goods and property.
  • A much more appropriate set of descriptive tools might be provided by concepts such as potlatch, carnival, excess, transgression or generosity.
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