Wild Men : Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern America
ISBN: 9780195178531 | 019517853X
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 12/10/2010
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When Ishi, "the last wild Indian," came out of hiding in August of 1911, he was quickly whisked away by train to San Francisco to meet Alfred Kroeber, one of the fathers of American anthropology. When Kroeber and Ishi came face to face, it was a momentous event, not only for each man, but for the cultures they represented. Each stood on the brink: one culture was in danger of losing something vital while the other was in danger of disappearing altogether. Ishi was a survivor, and viewed the bright lights of the big city with a mixture of awe an... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Prologue: One Small Step | p. 1 |
| The Yahi in Three Worlds | p. 13 |
| Genesis: The First World | p. 13 |
| Genocide: The Second World | p. 16 |
| Renaissance: The Third World | p. 44 |
| The Anthropologist in Three Worlds | p. 55 |
| Origins: New York City and Environs | p. 55 |
| The University: Columbia and Anthropology | p. 64 |
| ... MORE | p. 75 |
| "Worlds of Stuff" | p. 87 |
| Wowunupo'mu tetna | p. 87 |
| Oroville | p. 103 |
| Making Tracks | p. 114 |
| City Lights | p. 146 |
| Nature Walks in the City and the Sierras | p. 180 |
| The Call of the Wild | p. 208 |
| Nature Men | p. 208 |
| Photo Album and Scrapbook: Trip to "Ishi's Old Haunts," May 13-June 2, 1914 | p. 215 |
| Death Mask | p. 248 |
| End of the Trail | p. 248 |
| "Science Can Go to Hell" | p. 265 |
| Epilogue: The Hearth of Prometheus and the Wilderness of Ishi | p. 286 |
| Afterword: Google Earth, Earthquake Weather | p. 299 |
| Notes | p. 327 |
| Index | p. 355 |
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Douglas Cazaux Sackman is Professor of History at the University of Puget Sound. He is the author of Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden (2005) and the editor of A Companion to American Environmental History (2010).
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