Ishi's Brain: In Search of the Last "Wild" Indian


Orin Starn - 2004
    The trail to Ishi's brain leads Starn through the painful history of the extermination of the Indians, the strange and sometimes scandalous history of anthropology, and the changing, mixed-up world of Native California today. This absorbing new portrait of Ishi, wild man of Deer Creek, museum curiosity, and last of his tribe, will appeal to anyone interested in Native America, a story of science and scandal, and the life and legend of California's most famous Indian. 15 illustrations.

Unpleasant Ways to Die


Elan Fleisher - 1989
    Black humor is used in a series of cartoons depicting ironic situations in which people meet their end.

The Victorian Celebration of Death


James Stevens Curl - 1972
    From humble working-class exequies to the massive outpouring of grief at the State funerals of Wellington and Queen Victoria herself, The Victorian Celebration of Death covers an immense canvas. It describes the change in sensibility that led to a new tenderness towards the dead; the history of the urban cemeteries with their architecture and landscapes; the ephemera of death and dying; State funerals as national spectacles; and the utilitarian reactions towards the end of the 19th century. Combining wit with compassion, Curl wears his learning lightly, and his taste for the eerie is delicately balanced by this literary personality. He has resurrected many valuable and extremely interesting aspects of 19th century attitudes to death and the disposal of the dead.

Ancient Ruins of the Southwest: An Archaeological Guide


David Grant Noble - 1981
    An ever popular book detailing hundreds of archaeological ruins across the American Southwest.