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Brings together a range of insightful and unsettling perspectives and the research to personalize our understanding of one of the famous Native Americans of the modern era - Ishi, the last Yahi. This volume illuminates Ishi the person, his relationship to anthropologist A L Kroeber and others, his Yahi world, and his legacy for the 21st century.

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Subjects
Yana Indians, Indians in popular culture, Human remains (Archaeology), Museum exhibits, Cultural property, Repatriation, Racism in museum exhibits, Social life and customs, Relations with Yana Indians, Anthropometry, Ishi, -1916, Indians of north america, southwest, new, Human remains (archaeology), Indians of north america, social life and customs, Cultural property, protection, Moral and ethical aspects, Kroeber, alfred louis, 1876-1960, Art, exhibitions
People
Ishi, A. L. Kroeber, Ishi (d. 1916), A. L. Kroeber (1876-1960)
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United States

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Table of Contents

A personal remembrance of Ishi / Fred H. Zumwalt, Jr. --
Ishi's two bodies : anthropology and popular culture / Rachel Adams --
When the demons come : (retro)spectacle among the savages / Jace Weaver --
Kroeber, Pope, and Ishi / Grace Wilson Buzaljko --
Repatriating the remains of Ishi : Smithsonian Institution report and recommendation / Stuart Speaker --
Assuming responsibility for Ishi / Stanley H. Brandes --
Assuming responsibility for Ishi : an alternative interpretation / George M. Foster --
Ishi's brain, Ishi's ashes : reflections on anthropology and genocide / Nancy Scheper-Hughes --The humanity of Ishi / Karl Kroeber --
Ishi and the university / Karen Biestman --
The stone tool technology of Ishi and the Yana / M. Steven Shackley --
Ishi's Spanish words / Orin Starn --
Ishi's language / Victor Golla --
Yahi culture in the wax museum : Ishi's sound recordings / Ira Jacknis --
When the world was new : Ishi's stories / Jean Perry --
The story of Lizard ; The days of a life : what Ishi's stories can tell us about Ishi / Hubert Luthin and Leanne Hinton --
The power of names / Justice Gary Strankman --
Mister Ishi : analogies of exile, deliverance, and liberty / Gerald Vizenor --
Native sovereignty and the tricky mirror : Gerald Vizenor's "Ishi and the wood ducks" / Louis Owens --
The healer : Maidu artist Frank Day's vision of Ishi / Rebecca J. Dobkins --
What wild Indian? / Frank Tuttle.

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Lincoln, USA
Copyright Date
2003

Contributors

Editor
Clifton B. Kroeber
Contributor
Fred H. Zumwalt, Jr.
Contributor
Rachel Adams
Contributor
Grace Wilson Buzaljko
Contributor
Stuart Speaker
Contributor
Stanley H. Brandes
Contributor
George M. Foster
Contributor
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Contributor
Karen Biestman
Contributor
M. Steven Shackley
Contributor
Orin Starn
Contributor
Victor Golla
Contributor
Ira Jacknis
Contributor
Jean Perry
Contributor
Hubert Luthin
Contributor
Leanne Hinton
Contributor
Justice Gary Strankman
Contributor
Gerald Vizenor
Contributor
Louis Owens
Contributor
Rebecca J. Dobkins
Contributor
Frank Tuttle

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 416 p.
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25418996M
ISBN 10
0803227574
ISBN 13
9780803227576
OCLC/WorldCat
50669977

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