Ishi's Brain
In Search of Americas Last "Wild" Indian
Published on 9. November 2015
368 pages
978-0-393-29307-4 (ISBN)
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.More details
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Orin Starn is a professor in Duke University's cultural anthropology department and has written for many years about Peru.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Map
- Prologue: Trails to Ishi
- Chapter One: A "Compromise Between Science and Sentiment"
- Chapter Two: The Wild Man of Deer Creek
- Chapter Three: Ishi, Alfred, and Theodora
- Chapter Four: Ishi's Ancestors
- Chapter Five: Oroville
- Chapter Six: The Destruction of the Yahi
- Chapter Seven: Niche 601
- Chapter Eight: "Dr. Kroeber's Pet Buffalo"
- Chapter Nine: The Paper Trail
- Chapter Ten: The Wet Collection
- Chapter Eleven: Ales Hrdlicka and the Great Brain Hunt
- Chapter Twelve: The Maidu Go to Washington
- Chapter Thirteen: Lines of Descent
- Chapter Fourteen: Ancestral Gatherings
- Chapter Fifteen: Grizzly Bear's Hiding Place
- Chapter Sixteen: The Sacred Fire
- Chapter Seventeen: Dersch Meadow
- Epilogue: Vera's Party
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Illustrations
- Index
- Copyright
