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His capture in 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. It is organised into three accessible sections, Perspectives, Precedents and Presents, which approach historical aspects, current issues, and the future of circus performance.

The chapters, grouped together into 13 theme-based sub-sections, provide a clear entry point into the field and emphasise the diversity of approaches available to students and scholars of circus studies. Classic accounts of performance, including pieces by Philippe Petit and Friedrich Nietzsche, are included alongside more recent scholarship in the field.

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The book contains many statistical facts on the subject matter being discussed with more than references within the bibliography and more than graphs, satellite images, and other photographs. Popular Books. Fear No Evil by James Patterson. Mercy by David Baldacci. For more than forty years, Theodora Kroeber's biography has been sharing this tragic and absorbing drama with readers all over the world.

Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, , when, desperate with hunger and with terror of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughter house near Oroville, California.

Waterman and lived there the rest of his life under the care and protection of Alfred Kroeber and the staff of the University of California's Museum of Anthropology.

The British-Indian penal settlements in the Andaman Islands — beginning tentatively in and renewed on a larger scale in — represent an extensive, complex experiment in the management of populations through colonial discourses of race, criminality, civilization, and savagery.

Libraries near you: WorldCat. Ishi in two Worlds. Ishi in two worlds , Cresset Library. Paperback in English - De Luxe Ed edition. Paperback in English - 1st paper-bound edition edition. Ishi in two worlds: a biography of the last wild Indian in North America. Checked Out. Ishi in two worlds: a biography of the last wild Indian in NorthAmerica. People Ishi , Ishi d. Times , Yahi , last of his kind. Edition Notes Bibliography: p. Classifications Dewey Decimal Class I8 K7.

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