The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, Memory, and Indigenous California

by Andrew Garrett

Book Overview

A critical examination of the complex legacies of early Californian anthropology and linguistics for twenty-first-century communities.

In January 2021, at a time when many institutions were reevaluating fraught histories, the University of California removed anthropologist and linguist Alfred Kroeber's name from a building on its Berkeley campus. Critics accused Kroeber of racist and dehumanizing practices that harmed Indigenous people;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262547090
• ISBN13: 9780262547093
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"