Ishi in Two Worlds Author:Theodora Kroeber In nearly half a century since Ishi startled the Modern World by wandering into it. There follows an account of all that is surely and truly known of him. What he believed and felt and did in the 'modern world' and earlier are the bone beads of his story. The stringing of such of these beads as could be recovered into a single strand has been by... more » task. The circle of his life's necklace appears whole despite its many incompletions.
Edited a little, the ethnocentrism really bothers me.
"A most remarkable biography...It is also a real source book of central California ethnology and detailed record of this example of acculturation which is in most respects without equal in today's anthropological literature." --American Anthropologist« less