Round 1: Tossup 8

Pen and brush drawings were analyzed in a book predominantly collected by a thinker with this surname titled Drawn From Life. That thinker with this surname analyzed folk legends from the Karok and Yurok people in her book The Inland Whale. In The Patwin and their Neighbors, a thinker with this surname coined the term “tribelets” to denote social units smaller than a tribe. With Clark Wissler, a thinker with this surname developed the concept of a “culture area,” which pulled from his Handbook of the Indians of California. (10[2])An anthropologist with this surname, the mother of Ursula K. Le Guin, published a biography (10[1])on the “Two Worlds” of the last member of the Yahi tribe whom her husband studied. (10[1])For 10 points, give this surname of Theodora and the student of Franz Boas (-5[1])who studied Ishi, Alfred. ■END■

ANSWER: Kroeber [accept Alfred Kroeber or Theodora Kroeber; accept Theodora Covel Kracaw]
<NS, Social Science> | Packet A - Brown A, Wisconsin A, Purdue, Maryland B
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Buzzes


Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Neg %Avg. Buzz
California (North)Main Site3100%0%87.33
California (South)Main Site450%50%100.00
CanadaMain Site1250%8%96.83
FloridaMain Site30%0%
Great LakesMain Site580%20%99.50
Lower Mid-AtlanticMain Site911%11%105.00
MidwestMain Site838%25%95.00
OverflowMain Site425%50%100.00
South CentralMain Site20%100%
SoutheastMain Site729%57%111.00
UKMain Site1225%42%125.00
Upper Mid-AtlanticMain Site838%0%80.33
Upstate NYMain Site450%25%71.00