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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.
Theodora Kracaw Kroeber Quinn (Denver, 24 marzo 1897 – Berkeley, 4 luglio 1979) è stata una scrittrice e antropologa statunitense. È nota per i suoi resoconti su Ishi , ultimo rappresentante della tribù degli Yahi in California , e per la raccolta di racconti tradizionali di diverse culture dei nativi della California.
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
18 ott 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 ...
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- Theodora Kroeber
- $18.79
- University of California Press
19 mag 2018 · Theodora Kroeber’s Ishi in Two Worlds offers an intimate glimpse into the remarkable life of a resilient man facing harrowing, unforgivable circumstances.
Theodora Kroeber. Theodora Kracaw Kroeber Quinn was a writer and anthropologist, best known for her accounts of Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe of California, and for her retelling of traditional narratives from several Native Californian cultures.
Theodora Kracaw Kroeber Quinn (Denver, 24 marzo 1897 – Berkeley, 4 luglio 1979) è stata una scrittrice e antropologa statunitense. Theodora Kracaw Kroeber Quinn. È nota per i suoi resoconti su Ishi, ultimo rappresentante della tribù degli Yahi in California, e per la raccolta di racconti tradizionali di diverse culture dei nativi della ...
