ABSTRACT
Narrator (to the audience):
Good evening. Tonight, we will take a trip with Ishi into the wilderness. Remember, early 20th-century anthropology left the comforting feeling yet false impression that countless “untouched,” “unspoiled” tribes around the world flourished in their full exotic glory. This was Kroeber’s view of Ishi and his culture. This is the basis of salvage anthropology (Starn, 2004, p. 140, paraphrase). Much of what is known about Ishi comes from what was learned during a camping trip with him to his homeland in May of 1914. It is an episodic story, incomplete and loosely strung together (Kroeber, 1961, p. 10).
