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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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"Let me put it to you in these terms: If you read no other book this year, you must read this one."--Los Angeles Times
"A highly original literary work and a great human story. . . . stirring and fascinating."--San Francisco Chronicle
"A book that all Americans should read."--New York Times
". . . a remarkable book. . ."--The Oregonian
"A most remarkable biography. . . . It is also a real source book of central California ethnology and a detailed record of this example of acculturation."--American Anthropologist
"The story of Ishi is indescribably sad. Theodora Kroeber has told it concisely, factually, sympathetically, and beautifully. She has avoided the excesses of pathos or condemnation to which such a story lends itself."--Ethnohistory
"One of the first widely read books to offer an unvarnished account of the near-extermination of indigenous Californians in the late 19th century. . . . it remains a staple of that state's high-school curriculum."--Chronicle of Higher Education
About the Author
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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- PublisherUniversity of California Press
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0520271475
- ISBN 13 9780520271470
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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