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Author: J. J. Boersema Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107027705 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 313
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Jan J. Boersema reconstructs the ecological and cultural history of Easter Island and critiques the hitherto accepted theory of its collapse.
Author: J. J. Boersema Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107027705 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 313
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Jan J. Boersema reconstructs the ecological and cultural history of Easter Island and critiques the hitherto accepted theory of its collapse.
Author: Ian Conrich Publisher: Frank & Timme GmbH ISBN: 373290265X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 252
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Easter Island (or Rapa Nui) has long captivated travellers and explorers since it was first encountered by European voyagers in 1722. The island’s colossal stone carvings (moai) have been the primary attraction, yet these have overshadowed the broader culture of the Rapanui people. This significant edited collection brings together thirteen specialists from eight countries in a series of studies that address the pre-history, history, contemporary society and popular culture of Easter Island. Consideration is given to both the Rapanui and western cultures with topics covered including archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, tourism, literature, comic books and music. This is a multidisciplinary book with subjects ranging from fact to fiction and from Thor Heyerdahl and Katherine Routledge to Indiana Jones and Lara Croft.
Author: Alfred Métraux Publisher: Editions Gallimard ISBN: Category : Easter Island Languages : fr Pages : 210
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Depuis sa découverte en 1722, l'île de Pâques a été entourée d'un mystère que voyageurs et explorateurs tentaient d'élucider. De nombreuses théories furent élaborées au cours des siècles. Alfred Métraux, en sociologue et ethnologue expérimenté, s'est attaqué à son tour aux énigmes de l'île de Pâques, et ses réponses, basées sur une étude qui a duré plusieurs mois, n'oublient aucun problème soulevé par cette civilisation magnifique et mystérieuse.
Author: Sebastiaan Roeling Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 9781326329112 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 244
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Easter Island is known for the megalithic statues called moai. It is assumed that deforestation of the island by the Rapa Nui led to a cultural collapse. A brief period of prosperity was followed by a long period of chaos due to the misuse of natural resources to transport the spectacular moai. When Roggeveen visited the island, the Rapa Nui would have been hungry thieves, prostitutes and cannibals. Easter Island became an example to environmentalists as a warning for the entire planet. Roeling shows that the current image of Easter Island is completely false. He demonstrates that the use of firewood is the true reason of deforestation. However, while describing all aspects of Rapa Nui culture, religion and history, he also shows that deforestation did not led to famine, war and cannibalism. The loving and caring Rapa Nui developed innovative changes in agriculture and a new birdmancult to restore the order on the island. Their resilience is an example for the entire world rather than a warning.
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Après des milliers d'années d'isolement, l'île inhabitée la plus reculée de la planète, l'île de Pâques - appelée aussi Rapa Nui -, fut découverte en 1722 par un navigateur néerlandais. Des statues de pierre gigantesques et des objets d'artisanat datant de l'âge de la pierre étaient les seuls vestiges d'une grandiose civilisation disparue... Nul ne sut jamais ce sui s'était réellement passé sur cette île. " Rapa Nui " est bien davantage qu'une chronique exacte des événements survenus dans ce lieu mystérieux et envoûtant. C'est le récit de Pâques en l'année 1680, quand une guerre civile entre ses deux peuplades rivales se déclare...
Author: Steven Roger Fischer Publisher: Reaktion Books ISBN: 1861894163 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 316
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On a long stretch of green coast in the South Pacific, hundreds of enormous, impassive stone heads stand guard against the ravages of time, war, and disease that have attempted over the centuries to conquer Easter Island. Steven Roger Fischer offers the first English-language history of Easter Island in Island at the End of the World, a fascinating chronicle of adversity, triumph, and the enduring monumentality of the island's stone guards. A small canoe with Polynesians brought the first humans to Easter Island in 700 CE, and when boat travel in the South Pacific drastically decreased around 1500, the Easter Islanders were forced to adapt in order to survive their isolation. Adaptation, Fischer asserts, was a continuous thread in the life of Easter Island: the first European visitors, who viewed the awe-inspiring monolithic busts in 1722, set off hundreds of years of violent warfare, trade, and disease—from the smallpox, wars, and Great Death that decimated the island to the late nineteenth-century Catholic missionaries who tried to "save" it to a despotic Frenchman who declared sole claim of the island and was soon killed by the remaining 111 islanders. The rituals, leaders, and religions of the Easter Islanders evolved with all of these events, and Fischer is just as attentive to the island's cultural developments as he is to its foreign invasions. Bringing his history into the modern era, Fischer examines the colonization and annexation of Easter Island by Chile, including the Rapanui people's push for civil rights in 1964 and 1965, by which they gained full citizenship and freedom of movement on the island. As travel to and interest in the island rapidly expand, Island at the End of the World is an essential history of this mysterious site.
Author: Jennifer Vanderbes Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback ISBN: 0385336748 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 321
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In this extraordinary fiction debut—rich with love and betrayal, history and intellectual passion—two remarkable narratives converge on Easter Island, one of the most remote places in the world. It is 1913. Elsa Pendleton travels from England to Easter Island with her husband, an anthropologist sent by the Royal Geographical Society to study the colossal moai statues, and her younger sister. What begins as familial duty for Elsa becomes a grand adventure; on Easter Island she discovers her true calling. But, out of contact with the outside world, she is unaware that World War I has been declared and that a German naval squadron, fleeing the British across the South Pacific, is heading toward the island she now considers home. Sixty years later, Dr. Greer Farraday, an American botanist, travels to Easter Island to research the island’s ancient pollen, but more important, to put back the pieces of her life after the death of her husband. A series of brilliant revelations brings to life the parallel quests of these two intrepid young women as they delve into the centuries-old mysteries of Easter Island. Slowly unearthing the island’s haunting past, they are forced to confront turbulent discoveries about themselves and the people they love, changing their lives forever. Easter Island is a tour de force of storytelling that will establish Jennifer Vanderbes as one of the most gifted writers of her generation.
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