The Strategic Use of Anthropologists

The anthropologists met with Ishi often. They'd go hunting with bows and arrows together, kind of like a grown up version for Saxton Pope of playing Indian. I think when you dig down into it, it's exactly these kinds of things where the indigenous person says, no, I know exactly what you're doing. And I'm going to act according to my own best rights and interests in relation to what we're doing. There's an insistence upon sort of active agency.