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Theodora Kroeber (/ ˈ k r oʊ b ər / KROH-bər; née Theodora Covel Kracaw; March 24, 1897 – July 4, 1979) was an American writer and anthropologist, best known for her accounts of several Native Californian cultures.
Written by American author Theodora Kroeber, it was first published in 1961. Ishi had been found alone and starving outside Oroville, California, in 1911. He was befriended by the anthropologists Alfred Louis Kroeber and Thomas Waterman, who took him to the Museum of Anthropology in San Francisco.
- Theodora Kroeber
- 1961
Theodora Kroeber wrote the biography of Ishi's life nearly fifty years after his death, recreating his story from her husband's notes, diary entries, newspaper clippings, and other archival information.
From private collections and museums, photographs of the faces of California Indians whose tribes were exterminated by white men. Text by anthropologist Theodora Kroeber (Ishi In Two Worlds) and Heizer includes cultural outlines and semi-nostalgic observations.
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- Theodora Kroeber, Robert F. Heizer
Oct 18, 2011 · Theodora Kroeber’s Ishi in Two Worlds offers an intimate glimpse into the remarkable life of a resilient man facing harrowing, unforgivable circumstances. Drawing from her husband’s records, linguistic notes, and archival and oral histories, Kroeber presents a contested history of North American indigenous people and the atrocities of ...
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- Theodora Kroeber
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- University of California Press
Almost Ancestors: The First Californians Hardcover – January 1, 1968. by Theodora Kroeber (Author), Robert F. Heizer (Author), F. David Hales (Editor) 10 ratings. See all formats and editions.
- Theodora Kroeber, Robert F. Heizer
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First published in 1961, Ishi in Two Worlds tells the life story of the last known surviving member of the Yahi people, an indigenous community decimated by invasion and genocide at the hands of white settlers during the California Gold Rush.
