"Writing the Hamat̓sa critically surveys more than two centuries worth of published, archival, and oral sources to trace the attempted prohibition, intercultural mediation, and ultimate survival of one of Canada’s most iconic Indigenous ceremonies"-- Back cover

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Foreword / Chief William Cranmer/T̓łlakwagila (ꞌNa̱mg̱is Nation)Prologue: Points of Arrival and DepartureIntroduction: From Writing Culture to the Intercultural History of Ethnography1 A Complex Cannibal: Colonialism, Modernity and the Hamat̓sa 2 Discursive Cannibals:The Textual Dynamics of Settler Colonialism, 1786–18933 The Foundations of All Future Researches: The Work of Franz Boas and George Hunt, 1886–19664 Reading, Rewriting, and Writing Against: Changing Anthropological Theory, 1896–19975 From Index to Icon: (Auto)Biography and Popular Culture, 1941–20126 Reading Culture, Consuming Ethnography Afterword: Between This World and That / Andy Everson/Tanis (K̕ómoks Nation)AppendicesGlossaryNotes; References; Index