Ishi in Three Centuries

Ishi in Three Centuries
Author :
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 446
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0803227574
ISBN-13 : 9780803227576
Rating : 4/5 (576 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Ishi in Three Centuries by : Karl Kroeber

Download or read book Ishi in Three Centuries written by Karl Kroeber and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. ΓΈ 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.


Ishi in Three Centuries Related Books

Ishi in Three Centuries
Language: en
Pages: 446
Authors: Karl Kroeber
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

GET EBOOK

Ishi in Three Centuries brings together a range of insightful and unsettling perspectives and the latest research to enrich and personalize our understanding of
Ishi in Two Worlds
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Theodora Kroeber
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

GET EBOOK

Originally published: 1961. With new foreword.
Murder State
Language: en
Pages: 456
Authors: Brendan C. Lindsay
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

GET EBOOK

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Euro-American citizenry of California carried out mass genocide against the Native population of their state,
Native American Storytelling
Language: en
Pages: 144
Authors: Karl Kroeber
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-04-15 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

GET EBOOK

The myths and legends in this book have been selected both for their excellence as stories and because they illustrate the distinctive nature of Native American
Ishi's Brain: In Search of Americas Last
Language: en
Pages: 354
Authors: Orin Starn
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-06-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

GET EBOOK

From the mountains of California to a forgotten steel vat at the Smithsonian, this "eloquent and soul-searching book" (Lit) is "a compelling account of one of A