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Ishi in Two Worlds

9780520271470

Ishi in Two Worlds

  • ISBN 13:

    9780520271470

  • ISBN 10:

    0520271475

  • Edition: 3rd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 10/18/2011
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr
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Summary

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 forty 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.

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