[PDF] Ishi In Two Worlds eBook

Author : Theodora Kroeber
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520240377

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Originally published: 1961. With new foreword.

Author : Theodora Kroeber
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 32,92 MB
Release : 2011-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520271475

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OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD 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 fifty 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.

Author : Charles A. Eastman
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,2 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1933316764

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The importance of Eastman's life story was reiterated for a new generation when the 2007 HBO film entitled Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee used Eastman, played by Adam Beach, as its leading hero. This book presents an account of the American Indian experience as seen through the eyes of the author.

Author : Doris Seale
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 22,97 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780759107793

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The Winona dilemma / Lois Beardslee -- No word for goodbye / Mary TallMountain -- About the contributors.

Author : Orin Starn
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 21,21 MB
Release : 2005-06-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393293076

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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 American anthropology's strangest, saddest chapters" (Archaeology). After the Yahi were massacred in the mid-nineteenth century, Ishi survived alone for decades in the mountains of northern California, wearing skins and hunting with bow and arrow. His capture in 1911 made him a national sensation; anthropologist Alfred Kroeber declared him the world's most "uncivilized" man and made Ishi a living exhibit in his museum. Thousands came to see the displaced Indian before his death, of tuberculosis. Ishi's Brain follows Orin Starn's gripping quest for the remains of the last of the Yahi.

Author : James Clifford
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 25,48 MB
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0674726227

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Returns explores homecomings--the ways people recover and renew their roots. Engaging with indigenous histories of survival and transformation, James Clifford opens fundamental questions about where we are going, separately and together, in a globalizing, but not homogenizing, world. It was once widely assumed that tribal societies were destined to disappear. Sooner or later, irresistible economic and political forces would complete the destruction begun by culture contact and colonialism. But aboriginal groups persist, a reality that complicates familiar narratives of modernization. History is a multidirectional process where the word "indigenous," long associated with primitivism and localism, takes on unexpected meanings. In these probing essays, native people in California, Alaska, and Oceania are shown to be agents, not victims, struggling within and against dominant forms of cultural identity and economic power. Their returns to the land, performances of heritage, and diasporic ties are strategies for moving forward, ways to articulate what can paradoxically be called "traditional futures." With inventiveness and pragmatism, often against the odds, indigenous people are forging original pathways in a tangled, open-ended modernity. Third in a series that includes The Predicament of Culture and Routes, this volume continues Clifford's signature exploration of intercultural representations, travels, and now returns.