Not-so-Friendly Locals No Longer Content With a Shiny Penny For Their Day’s Labors
Published by Mr. Orange January 9th, 2007 in Indiana Jones-ish
You’d think the natives of Easter Island would be grateful that their home was made famous by a giant viking of a white man named for the Norse god of thunder, but Nooooo… now they’re “fatigued” by all the attention they’ve been getting from “archaeologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, musicologists, botanists, biologists and art historians.”
Apparently they’d rather, you know, make a living or plant their crops than put up with another yammering, dreadlocked graduate student bent on wresting a PhD thesis from the mud people’s non-western tonal scale:
“What did Heyerdahl really leave behind for us? You have to share the benefits and not just leave me a chocolate bar. Those days are over.”
Many on Easter Island Prefer to Leave Stones Unturned | New York Times
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Forget the anti-academic backlash, clash of socio-political interests, and mysterious vanished cultures. Who’s the bird?
Sorry charlie–I’m pretty sure that was shot on her honeymoon. (Is it “fair use” if they put ‘em up on their vacation shots page for all to see?)
Oh good, it’s a vacation shot. When I sobered up after my holiday posting, I got this irrational fear that she was a world-famous chemical archeologist, who would come walking into my lab in a few weeks, asking in unprofessional behavior was endemic around here, or just me…