The dead and the living : burial mounds & cairns and the development of social classes in the Gulf of Georgia region

This thesis provides a model for understanding how social classes arose in the Gulf of Georgia area. This model distinguishes how social status in rank and a class societies are manifested and maintained in non-state, kin-based societies, drawing mainly from ethnographic descriptions. The relatio...

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Main Author: Thom, Brian David
Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3859