Santiago Genovés, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Santiago Genovés

Mexican anthropologist

Date of Birth: 31-Dec-1923

Place of Birth: Orense, Galicia, Spain

Date of Death: 05-Sep-2013

Profession: anthropologist

Nationality: Spain, Mexico

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Santiago Genovés (31 December 1923 – 5 September 2013) was a Spanish-born Mexican anthropologist who was affiliated with the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
He is known for designing the 1973 "Peace Project" experiment, in which he and ten other people (four men and six women) aimed to sail on the Acali raft from the Canary Islands to Mexico.
He hoped that this experiment would shed light on the causes of violence 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 documentary film The Raft, by Marcus Lindeen.
He was also one of the researchers who co-authored and signed the Seville Statement on Violence in 1986.