Theodora Kroeber
Ishi in Two Worlds
A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America
$18.95, £11.50 paperback
978-0-520-22940-2
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282 pages, 5-1/4 x 8 inches, 32 b/w photographs, 5 line illustrations, 1 map
October 2002, Only available in Include US and Territories, Canada, Philippines
Categories: Anthropology; Cultural Anthropology; California & the West; Native American Ethnicity
October 2002, Only available in Include US and Territories, Canada, Philippines
Categories: Anthropology; Cultural Anthropology; California & the West; Native American Ethnicity
"A most remarkable biographyÉ. It is also a real source book of central California ethnology and a detailed record of this example of acculturation which is in most respects without equal in today's anthropological literature."—American Anthropologist
"A book that all Americans should read."—New York Times
"One of the most moving, tragic and ultimately triumphant human stories I have ever read."—Los Angeles Times
"[A] beautiful and compelling bookÉ. Highly recommended."—New Yorker
"A highly original literary work and a great human story."—San Francisco Chronicle
"Ishi's story is one of the most remarkable in the annals of Indians on this continent, and Mrs. Kroeber tells it with an integrity and insight that raises it to the level of history which is also art."—Washington Post
"Remarkably lively and interesting."—Atlantic Monthly
"Absolutely fascinating."—Chicago Tribune
"This magnificent biography of the lone survivor of the Yahi Indians shows man at his best."—San Francisco Examiner
"A moving, poetic document."—Christian Science Monitor
"A book that all Americans should read."—New York Times
"One of the most moving, tragic and ultimately triumphant human stories I have ever read."—Los Angeles Times
"[A] beautiful and compelling bookÉ. Highly recommended."—New Yorker
"A highly original literary work and a great human story."—San Francisco Chronicle
"Ishi's story is one of the most remarkable in the annals of Indians on this continent, and Mrs. Kroeber tells it with an integrity and insight that raises it to the level of history which is also art."—Washington Post
"Remarkably lively and interesting."—Atlantic Monthly
"Absolutely fascinating."—Chicago Tribune
"This magnificent biography of the lone survivor of the Yahi Indians shows man at his best."—San Francisco Examiner
"A moving, poetic document."—Christian Science Monitor
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 slaughterhouse 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. Karl Kroeber adds an informative tribute to the text, describing how the book came to be and how Theodora Kroeber's approach to the project was both a product of her era and of her insight and her empathy.
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 slaughterhouse 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. Karl Kroeber adds an informative tribute to the text, describing how the book came to be and how Theodora Kroeber's approach to the project was both a product of her era and of her insight and her empathy.
Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America, Deluxe Illustrated Edition , by Theodora Kroeber
Ishi the Last Yahi: A Documentary History, by Robert F. Heizer and Theodora Kroeber, editors
Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America, by Theodora Kroeber (hardcover edition of this book)
Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers, by Kent G. Lightfoot
Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native America, by Eva Marie Garroutte
California Indians and Their Environment: An Introduction, by Kent G. Lightfoot and Otis Parrish
Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources, by M. Kat Anderson
The Island Chumash: Behavioral Ecology of a Maritime Society, by Douglas J. Kennett
Ishi the Last Yahi: A Documentary History, by Robert F. Heizer and Theodora Kroeber, editors
Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America, by Theodora Kroeber (hardcover edition of this book)
Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers, by Kent G. Lightfoot
Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native America, by Eva Marie Garroutte
California Indians and Their Environment: An Introduction, by Kent G. Lightfoot and Otis Parrish
Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources, by M. Kat Anderson
The Island Chumash: Behavioral Ecology of a Maritime Society, by Douglas J. Kennett