Tag: Thor Heyerdahl

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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From Stonehenge to Rapa Nui: Donald Wandrei and the return of the Titans

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Taking both hands from the "Weird" literature of HP Lovecraft e Arthur Machen and combining the proceeds with the hypotheses of Charles Fort and the theosophical and "Atlantean" doctrines, Wandrei's 1932 novel was able to anticipate if not actually shape most of the cultural currents ascribable to the so-called "alternative reality" of the second part of the twentieth century: from the "magic realism" of Jacques Bergier to the "paleo-astronautics", from the encounter with extraterrestrial civilizations up to some dystopian predictions that today, almost a century later, do not seem science fiction at all.

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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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