Cover -- SYMBOLIC IMMORTALITY -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Tlingit Alphabet -- Tlingit Technical Sound Chart -- Map of Southeast Alaska, the Land of the Coastal Tlingits -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Outline of the Mortuary Rites -- PART ONE. THE PERSON AND THE SOCIAL ORDER -- Chapter Two. The "Outside" and the "Inside": The Tlingit View of the Human Being -- Chapter Three. Shagóon and the Social Person: The Cultural Ideal -- Chapter Four. The Aristocrat as the Ideal Person -- PART TWO. THE FUNERAL -- Chapter Five. Cosmology, Eschatology, and the Nature of Death -- Chapter Six. The Deceased, the Mourners, and the Opposites: Actors in the Ritual Drama -- Chapter Seven. Grief, Mourning, and the Politics of the Funeral -- PART THREE. THE POTLATCH -- Chapter Eight. The Potlatch as a Mortuary Ritual -- Chapter Nine. Competition and Cooperation, Hierarchy and Equality -- PART FOUR. DEATH IN NORTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA AND BEYOND -- Chapter Ten. The Tlingit Mortuary Complex: A Comparative Perspective -- Conclusion: The Tlingit Mortuary Complex and the Anthropology of Death -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index.