Ishi : last of his tribe / Drawings by Ruth Robbins.
Theodora Kroeber
ספרIn late August of 1911, from deep within the shadows of a remote canyon in northern California, an Indian of the Yahi people, long-believed to have disappeared, suddenly showed himself. A fugitive, he had hidden for decades from the lethal gaze of white intruders, keeping fires small and wiping the earth clean of his footprints. The sheriff took him into custody, and, having no better place for him, put him in the cell reserved for those who were not quite right in the head-the insane. The man soon aroused local and then national curiosity, and was christened the Wild Man or Wild Indian. Alfre
כותר |
Wild men [electronic resource] : Ishi and Kroeber in the wilderness of modern America / Douglas C. Sackman. |
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מוציא לאור |
New York : Oxford University Press |
שנה |
c2010 |
הערות |
Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
הערת תוכן ותקציר |
Contents Acknowledgments PROLOGUE: One Small Step One: THE YAHI IN THREE WORLDS Two: THE ANTHROPOLOGIST IN THREE WORLDS Three: "WORLDS OF STUFF" Four: MAKING TRACKS Five: CITY LIGHTS Six: NATURE WALKS IN THE CITY AND THE SIERRAS Seven: THE CALL OF THE WILD Eight: DEATH MASK EPILOGUE: The Hearth of Prometheus and the Wilderness of Ishi AFTERWORD: Google Earth, Earthquake Weather Notes Index |
סדרה |
New narratives in American history |
היקף החומר |
1 online resource (382 p.) |
שפה |
אנגלית |
מספר מערכת |
997010705118805171 |
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