Ishi in Two Worlds, 50th Anniversary Edition

A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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Over one million copies sold. The life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. For more than forty years, Theodora Kroeber's biography has been sharing this tragic and absorbing drama with readers all over the world. Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and with terror of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughter house near Oroville, California. Finally identified as an Indian by an anthropologist, Ishi was brought to San Francisco by Professor T. T. Waterman and lived there the rest of his life under the care and protection of Alfred Kroeber and the staff of the University of California's Museum of Anthropology.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-10-18
Mått:132 x 201 x 20 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Upplaga:11050
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520271470

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Theodora Kroeber (1897--1979), wife of Alfred Louis Kroeber, is also the author of The Inland Whale (California). Karl Kroeber, son of Theodora Kroeber, is Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and coeditor, with Clifton Kroeber, of Ishi in Three Centuries (2003). Lewis Gannett was a critic for the New York Herald-Tribune.

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"Let me put it to you in these terms: If you read no other book this year, you must read this one."

Innehållsförteckning

PART ONE: ISHI THE YAHIPrologue: Outside the Slaughter House1 Copper -colored People on a Golden Land2 A Living People3 A Dying People4 Episodes in Extermination5 The Long Concealment6 The Yahi DisappearPART TWO: MISTER ISHIPrologue: Outside the Jail7 Ishi's New World8 Life in a Museum9 The Craftsman10 The Brightest YearEpilogue: Death in a MuseumNotesBibliography