Werner WOLFF Island of death

Trouvé une ref à ce livre aujourd'hui sur internet. C'est une thèse de 1948 sur l'île de Pâques...Le titre complet est le suivant : Island of Death: A New Key to Easter Island's Culture Through an Ethno Psychological Study

Lire extrait d'un article de l'époque (15 Nov 1948) dans le Times :

In a new book, Island of Death (J. J. Augustin; $7), Dr. Werner Wolff, professor of psychology at Bard College, N.Y., tackles the problem with a "psychological" approach. There is plenty of scattered information about Easter Island, says Dr. Wolff. Why not fit the pieces together and use psychological insight to reconstruct the island's ancient culture? Then the mystery of the statues might be solved.
Laboriously and learnedly, Dr. Wolff assembles his data. Quoting many languages (including several kinds of Polynesian), he describes the Easter Islanders as they appeared to early explorers. They were rather good-looking people, but by modern standards they were not nice. For one thing, they ate one another—enemies, friends, relatives "and neighbors—with gusto. Parents ate their children; children ate their fathers.

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