
	Where results make sense

Topic: Theodora Kroeber

Related Topics

Alfred Kroeber

Ishi

Yahi

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Grand Haven, Michigan

Peregrine Falcon

Arnolfo di Cambio

Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry

1959

Herzeleid

Colossus computer

Protected Geographical Indication

Joaquim Chissano

Blyth, Northumberland

1970

In the News (Mon 7 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Theodora Kracaw Kroeber
		Theodora Kroeber was a talented writer and anthropologist, best known for her interpretations of the oral traditions of several Native Californian cultures.
		Theodora's writing style was pleasing and personal to the reader, and she was able to reach an audience outside the academy.
		Although Theodora never completed her doctoral work, that did not prevent her from achieving a great deal throughout her life, and we honor her as a dedicated and sensitive interpreter of Native American culture.
	anthropology.usf.edu /women/kroeber/kroeber.html (288 words)

	Theodora Kroeber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Theodora Kracaw Kroeber Quinn (March 24, 1897 - July 4, 1979) 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 was born in Colorado and later moved to California, where she studied at the University of California, Berkeley.
		After she was left a widow with two children, she studied anthropology, met and married Alfred Kroeber, one of the leading American anthropologists of his generation and himself a widower.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Theodora_Kroeber (250 words)

	AE book review search
		When, in 1999, Karl Kroeber wrote to the chairman of Berkeley’s anthropology department offering to testify that his parents would have spoken in favor of repatriating Ishi’s remains, he was surprised to be told that the department was riven by agitation to publicly apologize for Alfred Koeber’s “indefensible” treatment of Ishi.
		Kroeber’s sons, as editors, note that their father was an exemplary witness for Indian land claims in the 1950s.
		Theodora Kroeber’s biography of Ishi (who had died years before she met her husband) remains the most readable story of “the last Indian.” Orin Starn’s quest book adds historic detail and a great deal on contemporary repatriation politics.
	www.aaanet.org /aes/bkreviews/result_print.cfm?bk_id=3194 (1478 words)

	Alfred Kroeber
		Kroeber taught at U.C. Berkeley from 1901 to 1946, and served as both director of the university's Anthropological Museum as well as curator of Anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.
		Kroeber is also notable as the father of science fiction and fantasy author Ursula K. Le Guin, and the one-time caretaker of the famous California Indian Ishi.
		Like his mentor Boas, Kroeber was very much a believer in the principal of cultural relativism, the idea that what is morally wrong or socially undesirable in one culture may be fine in another and that individual choices and actions must be understood in within the context of the individual's own culture.
	www.nndb.com /people/040/000087776 (900 words)

	Theodora Kroeber
		Kroeber's most famous work, Ishi in Two Worlds, is to read the story of the reduction of a Northern California tribe, the Yahis, from a group of about 15,000 to a single survivor whose death marked their total extinction.
		Theodora tells us that when she began to draft the story in the fifties, Kroeber patiently read her notes and corrected her misinterpretations, but doing so brought back the painful as well as the fulfilling memories.
		Theodora Kroeber's other writing includes a children's version of the story, "Ishi, Last of his Tribe;" a book of nine Indian tales, "The Inland Whale;" and a children's tale, "A Green Christmas." Her reminiscence of her life with Kroeber is titled, "Alfred Kroeber, a Personal Configuration," (UC Press 1970.)
	www.cateweb.org /CA_Authors/Kroeber.html (964 words)

	Kroeber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Theodora Kroeber tells us that when she began to draft the story in the 1950s, her husband patiently read her notes and corrected her misinterpretations, while reliving the painful as well as the fulfilling memories.
		Theodora Kroeber's other writing includes a children's version of the story, Ishi, Last of his Tribe; a book of nine Indian tales, The Inland Whale; and a children's tale, A Green Christmas.
		After her marriage to Alfred Kroeber in March 1926, two more children were born, creating a family of three sons and a daughter, whom we know today as the Oregon-based author Ursula LeGuin.
	www.sjsu.edu /depts/english/Kroeber.htm (291 words)

	Ishi: Last of His Tribe - Literature Guide - MSN Encarta
		Theodora Kroeber was born in Denver, Colorado, on March 24, 1897, the daughter of Charles Emmett and Phebe Johnston Kracaw.
		She graduated from the University of California with a bachelor's degree in 1919 and master's degree in 1920, and married Clifton Spencer Brown on July 6, 1920.
		After his death in 1923, she married the famous anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber, whose career, writings, and life were intertwined with hers from their marriage on March 16, 1926, until his death in 1961.
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_701711992/Ishi_Last_of_His_Tribe.html (142 words)

	This Month's Pick - On the Same Page: San Francisco Reads - SFPL.org
		Karl Kroeber adds an informative tribute to the text, describing how the book came to be and how Theodora Kroeber's approach to the project was both a product of her era and of her insight and her empathy.
		Theodora Kroeber (1897-1979), wife of Alfred Louis Kroeber, is also the author of The Inland Whale (California).
		Karl Kroeber, son of Theodora Kroeber, is Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and coeditor, with Clifton Kroeber, of Ishi in Three Centuries (2003).
	sfpl.lib.ca.us /news/sanfranreads/picksnovember.htm (351 words)

	Theodora Kroeber-Quinn
		Theodora Kroeber-Quinn was born on March 20, 1897 in Denver, Colorado to Emmett and Phebe Kracaw.
		She was married to three different men; Clifton Brown, Alfred Kroeber and John Harrison Quinn, two of which preceded her in death.
		Though most of Theodora's life was spent behind the scenes fabricated by her husbands, she was still noted as a talented author around the age of 63.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/klmno/kroeberquinn_theodora.html (257 words)

	Ishi's Brain: In Search of America's Last "Wild" Indian
		As Starn points out, even though Theodora vividly described the massacres of the Yahi people, Ishi's forbearers, she wanted her story to be about healing: Ishi survived thanks to the kindness of her husband, Alfred, and other white protectors.
		Kroeber, on the other hand, a student of the liberal-minded Franz Boas, practiced "salvage anthropology," which held that all cultures, no matter their fate, are to be valued for their customs, cultures and mores.
		Kroeber settled Ishi at the newly opened Museum of Anthropology and saw to it that he was hired as a part-time janitor.
	www.orinstarn.com (4585 words)

	Reviews
		This 2002 edition of Theodora Kroeber, Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America, features a new foreword by Karl Kroeber, a son of the deceased author, but otherwise the book remains the same as the original 1961 work, including the lack of an index.
		Curiously, Theodora Kroeber writes, “I shall always be grateful that Kroeber read the final manuscript; he knew that a permanent account of his friend Ishi was at last on record” [xxvii].
		Kroeber “recognized her telling to be one version, one perspective, because historical circumstance and personal interest inevitably determine how any past event is perceived and assessed” [xix], and thus this is why she later published a volume of primary source material on the subject of her biography.
	www.cercles.com /review/r24/kroeber.htm (2576 words)

	Kroeber, Alfred Louis - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		KROEBER, ALFRED LOUIS [Kroeber, Alfred Louis], 1876-1960, American anthropologist, b.
		Like his teacher Franz Boas, Kroeber upheld the tradition of broad scholarship, and he was a major figure in the founding of the modern science of anthropology.
		He set forth clearly the relationship of culture patterns to the individual and presented a new concept of society as the interaction of groups and persons.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-kroeber.html (351 words)

	DAYBREAK - Who Was Ishi?: A Source of Surprise, Humility and Humanity
		It was Alfred Kroeber who agreed to take charge of what newspapers of the day called "the last primordial man." Kroeber also was one of three white people, together with UC surgeon Saxton Pope and anthropologist Thomas Waterman, with whom Ishi formed the closest bonds.
		Theodora Kroeber, who acknowledged her fascination with all things Indian, appears to have been mesmerized by the experience.
		Theodora Kroeber imagined that once completely alone, Ishi's world was too empty to endure and that his trek was actually akin to a "death march" that would reunite him with his ancestors.
	www.ucsf.edu /cgi-bin/print_hit_bold.pl/daybreak/1998/10/02_ishi.html (1464 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)