Word: mazie
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MYSTERIES OF EASTER ISLAND, by Francis Mazière. The brooding huge monoliths of Easter Island, 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile in the Pacific, have held an abiding fascination for generations of archaeologists. Mazière has new theories about the men who produced them and why, though the impact of his research is somewhat blunted by the fact that boulder-size chunks were lifted from previous work by an obscure Capuchin priest named Father Sebastian Englert...
...found the descendants of the master sculptors living in "the most unbelievable wretchedness." Now under the rule of Chile, they were penned up like sheep in a small compound, subject to forced labor, denied anything more than elementary education, refused the right to emigrate. As a gesture of sympathy, Mazière and his wife moved into the native village. According to Maziere, this apparently impolitic decision was largely responsible for the expedition's success. The Mazieres shared with the islanders whatever they had. In return, the islanders shared with him a series of progressively more esoteric legends...