Ishi in three centuries / edited by Karl Kroeber and Clifton Kroeber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kroeber, Karl, 1926-2009.

Kroeber, Clifton B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ishi, -1916.

Ishi.

Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960--Relations with Yana Indians.

Kroeber, A. L.

Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960.

Yana Indians--Social life and customs.

Yana Indians.

Indians in popular culture--United States.

Indians in popular culture.

Human remains (Archaeology)--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Museum exhibits--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Museum exhibits.

Cultural property--Repatriation--United States.

Cultural property.

Cultural property--Repatriation.

Museum exhibits--Moral and ethical aspects.

Manners and customs.

Relations with Yana Indians.

United States.

Physical Description:

xx, 416 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2003]

Summary:

Ishi in Three Centuries brings together a range of insightful and unsettling perspectives and the latest research to enrich and personalize our understanding of one of the most famous Native Americans of the modern era -- Ishi, the last Yahi. After decades of concealment from genocidal attacks on his people in California, Ishi (ca. 1860-1916) came out of hiding in 1911 and lived the last five years of his life in the University of California Anthropological Museum in San Francisco. Contributors to this volume illuminate Ishi the person, his relationship to anthropologist A. L. Kroeber and others, his Yahi world, and his enduring and evolving legacy for the twenty-first century. Ishi in Three Centuries features recent analytic translations of Ishi's stories, new information on his language, craft skills, and his personal life in San Francisco, with reminiscences of those who knew him and A. L. Kroeber. Multiple sides of the repatriation controversy are showcased and given equal weight. Especially valuable are discussions by Native American writers and artists, including Gerald Vizenor, Louis Owens, and Frank Tuttle, of how Ishi continues to inspire the creative imagination of American Indians.

Contents:

Part 1. Ishi in San Francisco

1. A Personal Remembrance of Ishi / Fred H. Zumwalt Jr. 11

2. Ishi's Two Bodies: Anthropology and Popular Culture / Rachel Adams 18

3. When the Demons Come: (Retro) Spectacle among the Savages / Jace Weaver 35

4. Kroeber, Pope, and Ishi / Grace Wilson Buzaljko 48

Part 2. The Repatriation Controversy

5. Repatriating the Remains of Ishi: Smithsonian Institution Report and Recommendation / Stuart Speaker 73

6. Assuming Responsibility for Ishi / Stanley H. Brandes 87

7. Assuming Responsibility for Ishi: An Alternative Interpretation / George M. Foster 89

8. Ishi's Brain, Ishi's Ashes: Reflections on Anthropology and Genocide / Nancy Scheper-Hughes 99

9. The Humanity of Ishi / Karl Kroeber 132

10. Ishi and the University / Karen Biestman 146

Part 3. Ishi's World Revisited

11. The Stone Tool Technology of Ishi and the Yana / M. Steven Shackley 159

12. Ishi's Spanish Words / Orin Starn 201

13. Ishi's Language / Victor Golla 208

Part 4. Ishi's Stories

14. Yahi Culture in the Wax Museum: Ishi's Sound Recordings / Ira Jacknis 235

15. When the World Was New: Ishi's Stories / Jean Perry 275

16. The Story of Lizard / Herbert Luthin, Leanne Hinton 293

17. The Days of a Life: What Ishi's Stories Can Tell Us About Ishi / Herbert Luthin, Leanne Hinton 318

Part 5. Ishi as Inspiration

18. The Power of Names / Justice Gary Strankman 359

19. Mister Ishi: Analogies of Exile, Deliverance, and Liberty / Gerald Vizenor 363

20. Native Sovereignty and the Tricky Mirror: Gerald Vizenor's "Ishi and the Wood Ducks" / Louis Owens 373

21. The Healer: Maidu Artist Frank Day's Vision of Ishi / Rebecca J. Dobkins 388

22. What Wild Indian? / Frank Tuttle 394

Appendix The Condition of California Indians, 1906 397.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-404) and index.

ISBN:

0803227574

OCLC:

50669977