Tag: Polynesia

Thor Heyerdahl, theory and practice

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On 6 October 1914, exactly 107 years ago, Thor Heyerdahl - anthropologist, explorer, writer and director - was born in Norway. Let's retrace the main stages of his life, starting with the Kon-Tiki expedition with which he crossed the Pacific on a balsa raft built in the manner of the ancients, in order to demonstrate to academics the possibility of transoceanic travel in antiquity.

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Secret History of New Zealand: From Oral Tradition to Genetic Analysis

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From the tradition of the Maori to the semi-forgotten Moors, going back to ethnic and cultural components that flow into the world of Myth: the Patupaiarehe, a "fairy" people of legends, Indian influence, the disconcerting distribution of the sweet potato kumara on both sides shores of the Pacific, Thor Heyerdahl's "thalassocratic" theory ... up to the most modern genetic analyzes.

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