- Published: 9 January 2024
- ISBN: 9780262547093
- Imprint: MIT Press Academic
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 472
- RRP: $110.00
The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall
Language, Memory, and Indigenous California
- Published: 9 January 2024
- ISBN: 9780262547093
- Imprint: MIT Press Academic
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 472
- RRP: $110.00
"Throughout its eleven chapters, Garrett’s book contains a wealth of fascinating and pertinent detail. It reflects sustained original research in the Bancroft archives at Berkeley and draws on wide reading in old and new published sources. Others have written well on specific elements of the Kroeber story: on the Ishi episode (Orin Starn) on aspects of Kroeber’s research practices (Ira Jackness), on his relations with Yurok communities (Thomas Buckley); and Theodora Kroeber has provided a biography. But there is no competition for this multi-faceted treatment of the historical and contemporary issues that surfaced in the un-naming of Kroeber Hall—a process which Garrett understands as an overdue reckoning with UC Berkeley’s settler-colonial past." -- James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, History of Consciousness Department, University of California, Santa Cruz