Ishi's Brain: In Search of Americas Last "Wild" Indian. This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2005
- Softcover
- Used
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Condition: Used - Fair
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Item description from seller
This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.
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- Title
- Ishi's Brain: In Search of Americas Last "Wild" Indian
- Author
- Starn, Orin
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- acceptable
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0393326985
- ISBN 13
- 9780393326987
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. 16 pages of illustrations."Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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