Santiago Genovés

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Santiago Genovés Tarazaga (31 December 1923 – 5 September 2013) was a Spanish-born Mexican anthropologist affiliated with the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is best remembered for the 1973 "Peace Project" experiment that he designed, in which he and ten other people, four men and six women, set out on an expedition on the Acali raft from the Canary Islands to Cozumel. He hoped that the experiment would shed light on the causes of violence in humans and on how it could be prevented, but the participants avoided violence. The 101-day experiment, frequently dubbed the "Sex Raft" by the media, was the subject of the 2018 documentary film The Raft, by Marcus Lindeen. Prior to the "Peace Project", Genovés had been part of the Thor Heyerdahl Ra expedition. A critique of Genovés's work, especially the 1973 Acali experiment, is that they lacked scientific integrity and value. During the experiment, Genovés became upset by the lack of conflict among the participants and tried...

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