Talk:Ishi in Two Worlds

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czar 07:52, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

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 * She stated that she took on the task of writing the biography because her husband found the subject too painful to write a book about

, don't know if this helps, but I wonder if there is a bit more to this story. Nancy Scheper-Hughes writes: "When Kroeber returned to Berkeley and found sitting on his desk a bottle containing Ishi's brain, he fell into a deep depression. He certainly did not want a brain specimen and he sent the organ off to the Smithsonian Museum. He then took a long leave of absence from his professorship to undergo psychoanalysis and to be a therapist, after which he refused to talk about Ishi following the Yahi tradition of not speaking about the dead. Viriditas (talk) 21:58, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Hi,

Related to this, I found the sentence in the intro, "Though she had never met Ishi, she decided to write a biography of him because her husband did not feel able to do so.", to be rather ambiguous-- my thoughts were, 'Was he too ill??', etc. The sentence does not have a citation, so would it be possible for that to be written more clearly-- perhaps by the article's primary author-- as apparently Mr. Kroeber's reticence was due to emotional reasons. 'Ishi' was my fave assigned reading as an Anthro undergrad, it affected how I see conflicts between groups. I recommend it to everyone. SaturnCat (talk) 00:30, 8 January 2024 (UTC)