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Ishi in Three Centuries

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Availability:In StockContributor:Karl Kroeber (Editor), Clifton Kroeber (Editor)Publish date:2008-05-01Pages:440
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9780803222502ISBN-10:803222505UPC:9780803222502Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Indigenous Peoples in the Americas, Ethnic Studies, United StatesBook Topic:American, State & LocalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.98 inchesWeight:1.411Product ID:SCYJPD88SS
Ishi in Three Centuries brings together a range of insightful and unsettling perspectives and the latest research to enrich and personalize our understanding of one of the most famous Native Americans of the modern era--Ishi, the last Yahi. After decades of concealment from genocidal attacks on his people in California, Ishi (ca. 1860-1916) came out of hiding in 1911 and lived the last five years of his life in the University of California Anthropological Museum in San Francisco. Contributors to this volume illuminate Ishi the person, his relationship to anthropologist A. L. Kroeber and others, his Yahi world, and his enduring and evolving legacy for the twenty-first century. Ishi in Three Centuries features recent analytic translations of Ishi's stories, new information on his language, craft skills, and his personal life in San Francisco, with reminiscences of those who knew him and A. L. Kroeber. Multiple sides of the repatriation controversy are showcased and given equal weight. Especially valuable are discussions by Native American writers and artists, including Gerald Vizenor, Louis Owens, and Frank Tuttle, of how Ishi continues to inspire the creative imagination of American Indians.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9780803222502ISBN-10:803222505UPC:9780803222502Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Indigenous Peoples in the Americas, Ethnic Studies, United StatesBook Topic:American, State & LocalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.98 inchesWeight:1.411Product ID:SCYJPD88SS
Karl Kroeber is Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His most recent books include Creation Myths of Primitive America, Artistry in Native American Myths (Nebraska 1998), and Traditional Literature of the American Indian (Nebraska 1997). Clifton Kroeber is Emeritus Norman Bridge Professor of Hispanic American History at Occidental College. He is the coauthor of Massacre on the Gila and coeditor of A Mohave War Reminiscence, 1854-1880 and The Frontier in Perspective.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

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