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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CONTRIBUTORS: Orin Starn
EAN: 9780393326987
COUNTRY: United States
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WEIGHT: 334 g
HEIGHT: 211 cm
PUBLISHED BY: WW Norton & Co
DATE PUBLISHED: 2005-06-20
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GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Indigenous, HISTORY / Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
WIDTH: 140 cm
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Book Themes:
United States of America, USA, Relating to Native American people, Indigenous peoples, Social and cultural anthropology
"By leaving the nuances and complexities in the story, Starn has completed the transformation of Ishi--from man, to legend, and now, at last, back into mortal man again."
Orin Starn is a professor in Duke University’s cultural anthropology department and has written for many years about Peru.
