Volume 51, Number 15 · October 7, 2004
Morality Tale
By Clifford Geertz
Ishi's Brain: In Search of America's Last "Wild" Indian
by Orin Starn
Norton, 352 pp., $25.95
Ishi in Three Centuries
edited by Karl Kroeber and Clifton Kroeber
University of Nebraska Press, 416 pp., $49.95
A California morality tale, the story of Ishi is in itself, like parables in general, a simple one. It is the tellers, each with different involvement and different intent, who complicate it.
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