I am (very) late getting to this, but 8 July a (white, of course) researcher of Polynesia Molle Guillaume raised the PROBLEMATIC!! flag against Ioannides'... story of two nonEuropeans getting together without white help. I missed it at the time. h/t Colavito. (Colavito's blog was Da Shiznit in July 2013 and is hardly looked at now. I am going through this blog for anything interesting.)
I hadn't noticed from the Nature article that Thor Heyerdahl was cited. Since I am no specialist in Polynesia, I couldn't tell you which other scholarship Ioannides or Guillaume should be citing (or not). Just on the general principle that more scholarship is better than less, that's annoying on Ioannides' part. However I didn't interpret that Heyerdahl was followed. Last July I'd interpreted that the Polynesians got to the Marquesas first, and then the two peoples met. I didn't venture how.
As for Ioannides' alleged "racism", what the fuck. No, seriously; how is weighing one post-Asian people against another post-Asian people racist, unless you are a Polynesian or a Bolivian nationalist. Or if you are a white guy grabbling for status by raising a Twitter rabble.
Guillaume also picks some scabs, rather feigns butthurt that Ioannides doesn't pick 'em, about the 1980s sampling process
because personal trajectories matter
and it's 2020 bro.
If this is the current attitude of Polynesian research, I can see why Ioannides didn't want much to do with it.
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