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Nine tales, selected and retold here by anthropologist and author Theodora Kroeber for the adult general-interest reader. The new foreword by her son, Karl Kroeber, provides context about the author's methods and describes his own personal connection to the stories themselves.
Price: $29.95
Pages: 212
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
05 December 2005
Trim Size: 8.00 X 5.25 in
ISBN: 9780520246935
Format: Paperback
Theodora Kroeber (1897-1979) was a noted anthropologist and also the author of Ishi in Two Worlds (California). Karl Kroeber, son of Theodora Kroeber, is Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and coeditor of Ishi in Three Centuries (2002).
Foreward by Karl Kroeber
Introduction
I.
The Inland Whale
Loon Woman
Butterfly Man
Dance Mad
Love Charm
Umai
About-the-House Girl
Tesilya, Sun's Daughter
The Man's Wife
II.
Some Qualities of Indian Stories
About the Stories in This Book
Sources
Introduction
I.
The Inland Whale
Loon Woman
Butterfly Man
Dance Mad
Love Charm
Umai
About-the-House Girl
Tesilya, Sun's Daughter
The Man's Wife
II.
Some Qualities of Indian Stories
About the Stories in This Book
Sources