The Last Archive
The Last Archive
Pushkin Industries
The Word For Man Is Ishi
49 minutes Posted Jun 29, 2023 at 9:00 am.
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In 1911, a Native American man, the only member of his community to survive a genocide, encountered the new Anthropology department at The University of California, Berkeley. What happened next helped to define the ethical quandaries of the field and, in a strange turn, the history of science fiction. This episode: That story and the moral stakes of imagining the past and the future.

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