![]() ![]() Chapter 1 tells Ishi's story in his own words Chapter 2 retells Ishi's capture narrative, which includes the recording of his story of the wood ducks Chapter 3 builds on stories told about Ishi by Zumwalt Jr. The author follows the story line in Kroeber's book, focusing on key events as recounted by Alfred Kroeber and his associates Saxton Pope and Thomas Waterman. It gives Ishi a voice he never had in Kroeber's book and imagines an Ishi who was not the happy warrior in Kroeber's book. The heart of the analysis involves a five-play cycle, built around Gerald Vizenor's trickster-survivance model. ![]() ![]() Rereading Ishi's Story offers a manifesto of sorts through a critical reading of an anthropological classic, Theodora Kroeber's 1961 book, Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America. ![]()
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