Stop Hunting Ishi

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-50
Author(s):  
William Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
White Men ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Tribal Sovereignty ◽  
Indian Gaming ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
The University

This essay follows the history of hunting Indians in California to the hunting of Ishi—the “last wild Indian in North America”—by anthropologists from the University of California through to the present-day hunt for Ishi’s legacy and his physical remains. William Bauer explores why Ishi was hunted, and what he has represented to different constituencies: the savage Indian on the frontier, killing livestock as well as white men, women, and children, and deserving a violent end himself; a symbol of Indian life supposedly uncontaminated by modernity; and tribal sovereignty and self-determination, a renaissance of indigenous politics and culture made possible by the survival of indigenous people and nations, and the economic opportunities of Indian gaming. Bauer argues that people who hunt for deeper meaning in Ishi’s legacy are often looking to understand something about themselves, not about indigenous people.

History of geological investigations of Mount Diablo, Contra Costa County, California

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory W. Bartow
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
University Of California ◽  
General Description ◽  
Mountain Building ◽  
Structural Interpretation ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

ABSTRACT Over the past 150 years, Mount Diablo has served as a window into the evolving understanding of California geology. In the 1800s, geologists mapped this easily accessible peak located less than 100 km (62 miles) from the rapidly growing city of San Francisco and the geology departments at the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University. Later, the mountain served as a focal point for investigating San Francisco Bay area tectonics. The structural interpretation of the up-thrusting mechanisms has evolved from a simple compressional system involving a few local faults to a more complex multifault and multiphase mountain-building theory. The stratigraphic interpretation and understanding have been advanced from a general description of the lithologies and fossils to a detailed description using sequence stratigraphy to define paleogeographic settings and depositional regimes.

On Disciplinary Finitude

PMLA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 132 (3) ◽  
pp. 505-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey T. Schnapp
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Architectural History ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti ◽  
Speed Limits ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
The University

The year 2008 was one of fruitful disjunctions. I spent the fall teaching at Stanford but commuting to the University of California, Los Angeles, to cochair the inaugural Mellon Seminar in Digital Humanities. During the same period, I was curating—at the Canadian Center for Architecture, in Montreal—an exhibition devised to mark the centenary of the publication of “The Founding Manifesto of Futurism,” by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Whereas other centennial shows (at the Centre Pompidou, in Paris, and at the Palazzo Reale, in Milan) sought to celebrate the accomplishments and legacies of Marinetti's avant-garde, the Canadian exhibition, Speed Limits, was critical and combative in spirit, more properly futurist (though thematically antifuturist). It probed the frayed edges of futurism's narrative of modernity as the era of speed to reflect on the social, environmental, and cultural costs. An exhibition about limits, it looked backward over the architectural history of the twentieth century to look forward beyond the era of automobility.

Book Reviews

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-118
Keyword(s):  
Urban Economics ◽  
University Of California ◽  
History Of Economics ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Journal Editorial ◽  
History Of ◽  
Managerial Economics ◽  
Economics Journals ◽  
The University

Robert Moffitt of Johns Hopkins University reviews “Secrets of Economics Editors”, by Michael Szenberg and Lall Ramrattan. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Twenty-four papers, some originally published in the American Economist, present reflections on the practices and experiences of past and present editors of economics journals. Papers focus on economic theory and finance; the history of economics; microeconomics and industrial organization; microeconomics; the methodology of economics; managerial economics; money and banking; urban economics; the economics of public choice; the economics of sports; economic development; the economics of education; general economics; and the journal editorial cycle and practices. Szenberg is Distinguished Professor of Economics in the Lubin School of Business at Pace University. Ramrattan is Instructor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.”

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