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Ishi's Brain: In Search of America's Last "Wild" Indian

By Orin Starn

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2004
ISBN
0393051331, 9780393326987, 9780393293074, 9780393051339
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (4963418 bytes)
Pages
352\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

From the mountains of California to a forgotten steel vat at the Smithsonian, this "eloquent and soul-searching book" (Lit) is "a compelling account of one of American anthropology's strangest, saddest chapters" (Archaeology).After the Yahi were massacred in the mid-nineteenth century, Ishi survived alone for decades in the mountains of northern California, wearing skins and hunting with bow and arrow. His capture in 1911 made him a national sensation; anthropologist Alfred Kroeber declared him the world's most "uncivilized" man and made Ishi a living exhibit in his museum. Thousands came to see the displaced Indian before his death, of tuberculosis. Ishi's Brain follows Orin Starn's gripping quest for the remains of the last of the Yahi.

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