Older Segments on the Potlatch Ceremony, Pt.1 and 2

This is part 2 of an older set of clips on the Potlatch. These and related videos can be found directly on .



And Part 2

The Potlatch Ceremony

The Potlatch ceremony is practiced by the native peoples of the northwest coast of North America, and has many of the elements of "exchange" and "reciprocity" that can also be seen in the Kula ceremony.

Trobriand Islands Background

Here are two links related to our reading and discussion around the peoples of the Trobriand Islands and the anthropologists who have studied them. One link is an embedded video from YouTube, and one is a link to a Google doc (presentation) in which the video is also embedded. I am creating these alternatives as I am hearing that people in my class are having difficulty seeing this stuff through our setup in Blackboard. Your feedback is most welcome!


Here is the video first, from YouTube (Other segments are found there also)


And here is a slideshow in Google Docs in which the video clip is embedded.