The story of Ishi is among the most improbable and intriguing episodes in the history of the American West. After pioneers massacred most of his Yahi tribe in the mid-nineteenth century, Ishi hid out for more than fifty years in northern California's mountains, living in skins a…
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An anthropologist retraces his efforts to locate the brain of Ishi--the "last wild Indian" of California who became an icon of dying Native American culture when he was captured in 1911--and his struggle to repatriate the remains.
4e de couv.: Using the influential and field-changing Writing Culture as a point of departure, the thirteen essays in Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology address anthropology's past, present, and future. The contributors, all leading figures in anthropology today, refle…
4e de couv.: Using the influential and field-changing Writing Culture as a point of departure, the thirteen essays in Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology address anthropology's past, present, and future. The contributors, all leading figures in anthropology today, refle…