Santiago Genovés Tarazaga (31 December 1923 – 5 September 2013) was a Spanish-born Mexican anthropologist who was affiliated with the

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. He designed the 1973 "Peace Project" experiment, in which he and ten other people (four men and six women) aimed to sail on the '' Acali''

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from the

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. He hoped that this experiment would shed light on the causes of

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in humans and on how it could be prevented. The 101-day experiment, frequently dubbed the "Sex Raft" by the media, was the subject of the 2018

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''The Raft'', by Marcus Lindeen. He was also one of the researchers who originated, co-authored and signed the Seville Statement on Violence in 1986. Prior to the "Peace Project", Genovés had been part of the Thor Heyerdahl ''Ra'' expedition.

Works

Books

* ''Expedición a la Violencia'' (ampliación de la declaración sobre la violencia adoptada por la

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. * Ensayos sobre:

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, Emilio Prados Such,

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, Alfonso Reyes, Rius. * ''El Mar, los Peces y Yo''. * ''El Pájaro Rojo o El Viaje a Nigeria''. * ''Solo. Un Hombre en el Mar''. * ''Balsa de Papyrus, a través del Atlántico''. * ''¿Por qué Acali?'' * ''El mono inquisitivo : Convivencia y comportamiento humano''.

Other publications

* (1954) "The problem of sex differences in some fossil hominids, with special reference to the Neandertal remains from Spy". ''Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland'', 84: 131-144. * (1956) ''A study of sex differences in the innominate bone (os coxae), with special reference to the material from St. Bride’s Church, London'', E. C. I. Universidad de Cambridge, 555 pp, Cambridge. * (1959) ''El Oreopithecus en la evolución de los homínidos''. Cuadernos del Seminario de Problemas Científicos y Filosóficos 16, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 18 pp, México. * (1960) "Revaluation of age, stature and sex of the Tepexpan remains, Mexico". ''American Journal of Physical Anthropology'', 18: 205-218. * (1967) "Proportionality of the long bones and their relation to stature in Mesoamericans". ''American Journal of Physical Anthropology'', 26: 67-78. * (1975) "El experimento Acali". ''Revista Médica'', 3: 9-31, México.

References

1923 births 2013 deaths Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico Alumni of the University of Cambridge Mexican anthropologists National School of Anthropology and History alumni People from Ourense Spanish emigrants to Mexico {{Anthropologist-stub