Benutzer Diskussion:W./Ragnar
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JAvT 2003, googlebooks: (dzt mir nur auszugsweise verfügbar).
- Today we know that there are 887 ... S. xv_f
- Vater Gurney stirbt mit 33 am 11. Juni 1872, "zwei Monate vor K's 6. Geburtstag." S. 22; die Erbschaft betrug nach heutigem Wert 21 Mio USD, oder 17 Mio B.Pfund - S. 25f
- Mutter leidet unter "Herzrasen" (palpitations). Stirbt 1915.
- K plagued by "voices" in July, 1894. S. 40.
- "breakdown" S. 41.
- 6 months later (=nach dem zusammenbruch), from Somerville Class of 1891, 12 sat for a degree, 6 of them in Modern History, none recieved higher than a "Second" (perhaps by a tacit agreement of the male) - K. amongst those. S. 43.
Easter Island Statue Project More Praise for Among Stone Giants, short bio of KR, by JAvT. HTTP
- ...whose unpublished handwritten field notes Van Tilburg deciphered. The information in those notes is of lasting value, because Routledge was an excellent interviewer, and some of her older informants had participated in the island’s last traditional ceremonies (the so-called Orongo birdman rites). Those informants told Routledge masses of information about traditional Easter Island society that would otherwise be lost to us. —The New York Review of Books, 2004
- Writing Routledge. Her Field Notes and Their Value to Science
excerpt from a presentation entitled “Sex, Lies and Fieldnotes: A Skeptic on Easter Island” given at The Skeptic Society, Cal Tech, Pasadena, 2003
- Over the next 17 months Katherine Routledge mapped and measured her way through hundreds of prehistoric sites. With Scoresby away on a dangerous and near-fatal wartime journey to mainland Chile, Katherine was alone on Easter Island for an unexpectedly long 3 months and 10 days. Deliberately, she turned her attention from statues to people, from archaeology to ethnography, probing what she so aptly called “living memory.”
- laid the groundwork for the recovery of Easter Island culture history. She sorted out, or tried to, the “tendency to glide” around the truth that some of her oldest consultants displayed (and whom Tepano frankly called “liars”).
- ...Considered by a few to be a somewhat typical Englishwoman’s book of travel experiences, others saw it as the valuable ethnography it was, and eagerly awaited the “more scientific” book she promised would follow. Her second book was never written and, for the next 50 years, her fieldnotes were thought to have been lost or destroyed.
- She waged a desperate battle in the media that resulted in a court order sequestering her property and funds. Toward the end of the summer of 1928, Katherine Routledge was actually kidnapped from her fortified home. Scoresby and the others forced her into a waiting ambulance and drove her to a distant asylum. One year later, Scoresby deposited the bulk of Katherine’s fieldnotes, correspondence, Mana logbooks and accounts on loan with the Royal Geographical Society in London.
- Katherine Routledge gave the Easter Island people the gift of her intellect, allowing them to preserve, for all time, a version of their history that, without her, would have been lost to their descendants, to scholarship and to the outside world forever.
KR 142 ff: Angatha und der Aufstand.(Fig. 30 facing 145)
Ritchie, Photographer
KR 254 facing Pre-Christian Culture, The Bird Cult img. facing.
KR 262 facing: Fig. 110; Fig 114 fac.267.
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was born in Melbourne in 1859. On the death of his father's brother, and business partner, the family returned to England about 1867. Routledge graduated from Christ Church College, Oxford in 1882. He then studied medicine at University College London and in 1883 was awarded the Physiology prize, he was also elected to the Royal Geographical Society. In 1888 he won the prestigious Erichsen prize for practical surgery but left university the following year without qualifying as a doctor.
Routledge lived with the Micmacs in Newfoundland and then with the Kikuyu in Africa, in 1902. He returned to Africa with his wife Katherine in 1906. They collected Kikuyu tools, weapons and ornaments for the British Museum and, in 1910, wrote With a Prehistoric People, the Akikuyu of British East Africa.
The Routledges sailed to Easter Island (Rapa Nui) arriving in 1914 and carried out the first archaeological survey of the island. Katherine wrote a fictional account of their work in her book the Mystery of Easter Island. Scoresby Routledge died in Cyprus in 1939. The Routledge papers are held at the Royal Geographical Society in London.