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NASTAVAK PRIČE O IŠIJU: PROMENE ZNAČENJA NARATIVA U AMERIČKOJ ANTROPOLOGIJI I POPULARNOJ KULTURI
Sequel to The story of Ishi

Author(s): Gordana Gorunović
Subject(s): Comparative history, Culture and social structure
Published by: Институт за етнологију и антропологију
Keywords: Yahi and Yana Indians; California in the 19th century; Euro-American colonization and genocide; Theodora Kroeber; Boasian anthropology; narrative of Ishi and its meaning

Summary/Abstract: The story of Ishi and his exterminated people was woven into the early twentieth-century history of anthropological disciplines, biographies of the scientists-participants and the history of modern American culture. As time went by, it has grown into an exemplary popular story of the suffering and resistance of the First Nations, the responsibility and suppressed guilt of white colonists and colonizers, as well as of the attempt to heal the trauma in the encounter with anthropologists before the First World War even before the descendants of indigenous people in the United States acquired civil rights. This article deals with the golden fever and colonization that led to ethnic cleansing and genocide in California during the 19th century; the manner in which the writing of Theodora Kroeber about the forgotten man Ishi and Yana nation had created a „great American story”; and how the narrative of Ishi was given a continuation, with a new entanglement and meaning, at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century.

  • Issue Year: 19/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 109-131
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Serbian