Theodora Kroeber

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name = Theodora Krakaw Kroeber Quinn


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birth_date = March 24, 1897
birth_place = Hoboken, New Jersey
death_date = July 4, 1979
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education = UC Berkeley
occupation = Writer, Anthropologist
spouse = (2) Alfred L. Kroeber
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children = Karl, Ursula, Ted, Clifton.

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. In 1920 she earned her Master's degree in clinical psychology.

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. After his death, Theodora Kroeber would write his biography. Writer Ursula K. Le Guin is their daughter, and English professor Karl Kroeber their son. Her sons from her first marriage were Ted and Clifton Kroeber, historian.

Books by Theodora Kroeber

* "The Inland Whale". 1959. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
* "Ishi in Two Worlds". Berkeley.
* "Ishi: The Last of His Tribe". 1964. Parnassus Press, Berkeley, California.
* (with Robert F. Heizer) "Almost Ancestors: The First Californians". 1968. Sierra Club, San Francisco.
* "Alfred Kroeber: A Personal Configuration". 1970. University of California Press, Berkeley.
* (with Robert F. Heizer and Albert B. Elsasser) "Drawn from Life: California Indians in Pen and Brush". 1976. Ballena Press, Socorro, New Mexico.
* (with Robert F. Heizer) "Ishi, the Last Yahi: A Documentary History". 1979. University of California Press, Berkeley.

References

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* Mandelbaum, David G. 1979. "Memorial to Theodora Kroeber Quinn (1897-1979). "Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology" 1:237-239.

External links

* [http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/audiofiles.html#tkroeber Ishi in Two Worlds, (talk at UC Berkeley)(online audio recording)]