Into the Zone

The Last Archive: The Word For Man Is Ishi

06.29.2023 - By Pushkin IndustriesPlay

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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 Berkeley University. 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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