Ishi in Three Centuries - Hardcover

Kroeber, K

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803227574 ISBN 13: 9780803227576

Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 2003

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Book by Karl Kroeber Clifton Kroeber

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"This is a stunning tour de force and one of the most beautiful and moving works I have ever encountered. Ishi in Three Centuries has a wide appeal for humanists, social scientists, and any thoughtful person. Spectacular!" Raymond Bucko, author of The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge

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"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.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 co-author of "Massacre on the Gila" and co-editor of "A Mohave War Reminiscence, 1854-1880" and "The Frontier in Perspective". Also available "Artistry in Native American Myths" by Karl Kroeber, 1998 (0-8032-7785-7 PB GBP22.95), "Traditional Literature of the American Indian: Texts and Interpretations 2nd edn" by Karl Kroeber, 1997 (0-8032-7782-2 PB GBP10.95).

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• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0803227574
• ISBN 13: 9780803227576
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416