Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedCharles C. Mann: belief
31 Jan 2018 Conversations with Tyler Charles C. Mann on Shaping Tomorrow's World and the Limits to Growth
“Oh, my gosh, I’ve lost his name. I think he was head of UNESCO for a while, great French archaeologist.”
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…He’s too much of a pessimist about the history of Easter Island? Yes. I really admire his reach, what he’s trying for. I don’t understand sometimes why, it seems to me — maybe I’m wrong — that he doesn’t do his homework. For example, there is a bunch of French and Dutch archaeologists who went to Easter Island just as you said. Oh, my gosh, I’ve lost his name. I think he was head of UNESCO for a while, great French archaeologist. Anyway, he wrote three books about Easter Island. The UMass Library, which is the one nearest me, which has 10 books about Easter Island, but four of them, three or four of them are by him. So it’s not an obscure source. He went to the Dutch Archives; he pieced it together. Basically what happened to the islands is they were really small, defenseless islands at a time when European traders were particularly rapacious, and the place got just swept away by slavery, disease, and also the trees got cut down for masts. James C. Scott and his theories of anarchism in governance and conquest.…
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