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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: Alfred Métraux Publisher: Editions Gallimard ISBN: Category : Easter Island Languages : fr Pages : 210
Book Description
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: 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: Ethan E. Cochrane Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199925070 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 529
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"The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania presents the archaeology, linguistics, environment and human biology of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. First colonized 50,000 years ago, Oceania witnessed the independent invention of agriculture, the construction of Easter Island's statues, and the development of the word's last archaic states."--Provided by publisher.
Author: Katherine Routledge Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 387
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"The mystery of Easter island" by Katherine Routledge. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author: Steven R. Fischer Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780198237105 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 754
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This book is the first comprehensive documentation of Rongorongo, Easter Island's enigmatic script and Oceania's only known pre-twentieth-century writing system. The author tells the full history of rongorongo's exciting discovery and the many attempts at a decipherment and provides full transcriptions of all the 25 surviving rongorongo inscriptions along with detailed photographs of nearly every incised artifact.
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