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As World War I winds down, Indy teams up with his old friend Remy to track down a saboteur in the trenches. When the traitor is finally discovered, his dying words and a map send Indy and Remy around the world to find the Treasure of the Peacock’s Eye. Along the way Indy meets up with his old friend Howard Carter who is travelling with E.M. Forster. Following a dangerous trail that leads them from London to Alexandria and finally to the South China Seas, Indy finds himself making a life altering decision that will eventually lead him back home to America. One-eyed Germans, headhunting natives, and Chinese pirates make this exciting quest a foreshadowing of the Indiana Jones that will mature into the whip-cracking adventurer that we all love.
Key Topics: | Alexander the Great; Bronislaw Malinowski; Anthropology |
Historic People: | Bronislaw Malinowski—Famed Anthropologist who studied in Papua New Guinea & the Trobriand Islands. |
People and Topics
DescriptorFamed Anthropologist who studied in Papua New Guinea & the Trobriand Islands. BooksMalinowski, Bronislaw. A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1967. Young, Michael W. Malinowski: Odyssey of an Anthropologist. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. Websites |
DescriptorIs quite simply defined as the study of humanity. Anthropology examines culture, how and why people behave the way they do, how people interact, etc. Anthropologists are known for immersing themselves in a culture by "moving in" with the group being studied. BooksErikson, Thomas Hylland, Finn Sivert Nielsen. A History of Anthropology. London: Pluto Press, 2001. Erikson, Thomas Hylland. What is Anthropology. London: Pluto Press, 2004. WebsitesAmerican Anthropological Association Smithsonian Department of Anthropology | DescriptorArchaeologist who discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun and ushered in a new era of archaeology with his dedication to conservation and study of finds. BooksReeves, Nicholas, John H. Taylor. Howard Carter Before Tutankhamun. New York: Harry M. Abrams, 1992. Hoving, Thomas. Tutankhamun: The Untold Story. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978. Websites |
DescriptorBritish writer of such novels as A Passage to India & Howards End. BooksForster, E.M. A Passage to India. Penguin Books Ltd., 2000. Furbank, P.N. E.M. Forster: A Life. Harvest Books, 1994. Websites |
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Documentary Previews
Below you will find information about each documentary that supplements Treasure of the Peacock's Eye.
Bronislaw Malinowski: God Professor | In 1915, a Polish scholar named Bronislaw Malinowski landed on a tiny island off the coast of New Guinea. He had come as an anthropologist -- a scientist who studies the origins and behavior of human kind. He had come to investigate the lifestyle, customs and beliefs of the people who lived there. The methods he would develop to conduct his investigation would change anthropology forever. Produced by Mark Page and Jennifer Petrucelli; Written by Mark Page. |
Anthropology: Looking at the Human Condition | For over 100 years anthropologists have been learning from people in every corner of our world, and using the data they gather to create a group portrait of the human race. And wherever they find their subjects -- whether they live on the other side of the globe or just down the block, hang out in a tropical rainforest, a corporate boardroom or a parking lot, anthropologists help us to understand our fellow human beings, and our selves. Produced by Mark Page and Jennifer Petrucelli; Written by Mark Page. |
New Guinea: Paradise in Peril | A land of mystery and danger, it's been said that New Guinea contains more strange and new and beautiful things than any other part of the globe. Located off the coast of southeast Asia just North of Australia, this rugged and vast tropical island was one of the last places on Earth to be explored by white men. Tantalizing glimpses of the fierce people who lived in New Guinea as well as the island's stunning plant and animal life have long lured Western adventurers looking to make new discoveries. They were not disappointed. Produced and Written by Betsy Bayha. Running Time: (0:25:04) |
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Indy Connections: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
Below are current event articles that relate to events, topics, and people found in Treasure of the Peacock's Eye.
Starving Settlers in Jamestown Colony Resorted to Cannibalism
Smithsonian.com
5/1/2013
The harsh winter of 1609 in Virginia’s Jamestown Colony forced residents to do the unthinkable. A recent excavation at the historic site discovered the carcasses of dogs, cats and horses consumed during the season commonly called the “Starving Time.” But a few other newly discovered bones in particular, though, tell a far more gruesome story: the dismemberment and cannibalization of a 14-year-old English girl.
Rare World War I Images Found Inside Antique Camera By Photographer Anton Orlov
huffingtonpost.com
1/11/2013
A blogger passionate about historic photography techniques serendipitously found some old photos inside his newly-purchased camera. As in, World War I old. Last week, Anton Orlov of the Photo Palace blog was cleaning the Jumelle Belllieni stereoscopic camera that he'd bought at an antique store a few days prior, and found the images completely by accident. According to his blog, he opened the film chamber and saw the negatives on a stack of glass plates.
Mysterious Maya Tomb Explored for First Time
Nationalgeographic.com
11/30/2012
An entrance to a Maya burial chamber is decorated with vibrant red wall murals—the first look scientists have gotten of a mysterious tomb discovered in 1999. For the first time, a team of researchers from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) recently entered the tomb, which also contains 11 vessels as well as pieces of jade, according to an INAH statement.
Why the Maya Fell: Climate Change, Conflict—And a Trip to the Beach?
Nationalgeographic.com
11/9/2012
Every civilization has its rise and fall. But no culture has fallen quite like the Maya Empire, seemingly swallowed by the jungle after centuries of urban, cultural, intellectual, and agricultural evolution. What went wrong? The latest discoveries point not to a cataclysmic eruption, quake, or plague but rather to climate change. And faced with the fallout, one expert says, the Maya may have packed up and gone to the beach.
Mysterious Maya Calendar & Mural Uncovered
Nationalgeographic.com
5/10/2012
Researchers have uncovered a remarkably well-preserved Maya mural and calendar markings that add perspective on Maya thinking. National Geographic Society grantee William Saturno and his team uncovered the artwork in what was either a home or workplace abandoned hundreds of years ago. The findings are published in the May 11 issue of the journal Science and the June edition of National Geographic magazine.
End of an era as last surviving First World War veteran dies just days before her 111th birthday
dailymail.co.uk
2/8/2012
The world's last surviving First World War veteran has died - marking the end of an era in British history. Florence Green, who joined the war effort in September 1918, when she was aged just 17, passed away in her sleep at a Norfolk care home just two weeks before her 111th birthday. The great-grandmother, who lived through all but 400 days of the 20th century, signed up to the Women's Royal Air Force two months before the end of the First World War. She was the last surviving person to have seen active service in the Great War following the death of British-born sailor Claude Choules in Australia last year.
Inside the real Birdsong tunnels: Never-before-seen images of the mines dug by British 'clay-kickers' under German lines in First World War
dailymail.co.uk
1/27/2012
Flanders fields today bears little sign of the four years of war that claimed so many thousands of lives and ravaged this small corner of the Western Front. But further down, deep below the surface there remains a constant reminder of the bravery and daring of the men who risked their lives for their country.
Australia's oldest man, World War I veteran Claude Choules dies at 110
perthnow.com.au
5/5/2011
WA's national treasure Claude Choules, Australia's oldest man and the world's last surviving World War I veteran, has died in Perth aged 110. Mr Choules was a man who made the best of life and devoted himself to his family and country. His fighting spirit helped him survive two world wars, and also live long enough to become the oldest man in WA and the last World War I veteran living in Australia.
El Mirador, the Lost City of the Maya
Smithsonian.com
5/1/2011
Had we been traveling overland, it would have taken two or three days to get from the end of the road at Carmelita to El Mirador: long hours of punishing heat and drenching rain, of mud and mosquitoes, and the possibility that the jungle novice in our party (that would be me, not the biologists turned photographers Christian Ziegler and Claudio Contreras) might step on a lethal fer-de-lance or do some witless city thing to provoke a jaguar or arouse the ire of the army ants inhabiting the last great swath of subtropical rain forest in Mesoamerica.
Frank Buckles, last American veteran of World War I, dies at 110
latimes.com
3/1/2011
Frank Woodruff Buckles, a onetime Missouri farm boy who was the last known living American veteran of World War I, has died. He was 110. Buckles, who later spent more than three years in a Japanese POW camp as a civilian in the Philippines during World War II, died Sunday of natural causes at his home in Charles Town, W.Va., family spokesman David DeJonge said.
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