| Take the widespread tribal custom of potlatch, for example, where gifts are exchanged between families or communities. |
| We arrived in the middle of winter to participate in that village's annual Stick Dance, a weeklong ceremony for the dead that culminates in a traditional potlatch. |
| He was an anthropologist who worked on the potlatch originally and became fascinated with these cycles by which a thing had value, lost value, regained value. |
| The consumerist potlatch is especially striking because the brand names are nearly all American. |
| A potlatch was given by an heir or successor to assert and validate his newly assumed social position. |
| Traditionally, a feast called a potlatch was held whenever a new totem pole was raised. |
