Priča o Išiju
The Story of Ishi

Summary/Abstract: “The story of Ishi” is a more general term for an enframed narrative that includes a number of special, interconnected and sometimes conflicting historical and current stories, as well as revisionist interpretations in American science, literature and art. The story of Ishi is historical and biographical but not autobiographical, factographic and fictional, ethnographic and anthropological (includes physical anthropology and archeology, cultural anthropology, linguistics and folkloristics). In this paper, the emphasis is on the following topics: Ishi as the last “wild” Yahi Indian and his exterminated tribal and ethnic group; Ishi’s “saviors” and “patrons”, American anthropologists from the early 20th century and their science.

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