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Theodora Kroeber (March 24, 1897 – July 4, 1979) was an American writer and anthropologist, best known for her accounts of several Native Californian cultures.[5] Born in Denver, Colorado, Kroeber grew up in the mining town of Telluride, and worked briefly as a nurse.
10 oct. 2023 · The Kroeber referred to in the above quote is Alfred Kroeber, the famed anthropologist and Theodora Kroeber’s second husband. He was the director of the Museum of Anthropology at the time. He developed an intimacy and friendship with Ishi, but years later, when asked to write a book about him, declined. They then asked Theodora to write it.
18 oct. 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 violence, abuse, and disease wrought by white men.
Dr. Alfred Kroeber was a very important American anthropologist early in this century -- a student of Franz Boas, and a parent, with Theodora, of the writer Ursula K. (for Kroeber) LeGuin. Theodora Kroeber, at any rate, was in an excellent position to tell Ishi's story from the inside, and she does a fantastic job of it.
Over the years, I have developed a fascination for history, and Author Theodora Kroeber's story of ISHI, LAST OF HIS TRIBE certainly did not disappointment me. Although this story may be subject to a certain amount of romanticism on the part of the Author, I found this version of Ishi's life easy to read and very enlightening.
Théodora Kroeber est peut-être plus connue comme la femme d'Alfred-Louis Kroeber (1876-1960) qui l'aida à écrire ce livre. Alfred Kroeber, qui enseigna dès 1901 l'anthropologie à l'Université de Californie, devint en 1908 conservateur du musée d'Anthropologie où habita Ishi depuis sa capture jusqu'à sa mort (1911-1916).
Alfred Louis Kroeber (11 juin 1876 - 5 octobre 1960) est un anthropologue américain de la première partie du XX e siècle. Il fut spécialiste des populations nord-américaines et en particulier des Amérindiens de Californie .
