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Many early visitors and researchers noted and commented upon petroglyphs. Except for the PhD thesis of Georgia Lee, little attention was paid to the island’s rock art to understand Rapa Nui civilization, even if more than four thousand... more
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      Rock Art (Archaeology)Easter Island ArchaeologyRock art researchARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY OF POLYNESIA AND EASTER ISLAND
Resumen El presente artículo considera la historia de Rapa Nui en el siglo XVIII desde dos perspectivas distintas. Primero, examino el desarrollo de la exploración europea de los océanos que resultó en el redescubrimiento de Isla de... more
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      Pacific Island StudiesPolynesian StudiesEaster IslandHistory of Navigation
The Annexation of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) by Chile in 1888 Although various nations could claim the right to Easter Island, it was Chile that finally became the owner of Rapa Nui. The article narrates the history of the annexation,... more
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      AnthropologyEaster IslandRapa NuiARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY OF POLYNESIA AND EASTER ISLAND
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      Near Eastern ArchaeologyWriting Systems & DeciphermentArchaeological DeciphermentEaster Island Archaeology
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In the year 1770, a Spanish captain named Felipe González de Haedo visited Easter Island and claimed it for the Spanish Crown. This act, meant as a strategic measure against other European nations, did not carry with it any serious... more
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      Translation StudiesEnlightenment18th CenturyEaster Island Archaeology
El presente ensayo analiza el desarrollo de la antropología –y en particular la antropología social chilena– en Rapa Nui y el lugar que ocupa la isla en la disciplina, al determinar sus características y aportes en la comunidad local. El... more
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      History of ScienceEaster Island/Rapa NuiAntropologia Chilena
Kokongo, Rōviro and Hansen’s Disease: Medical Doctors on Easter Island (Rapa Nui) in the years 1786–1853 The paper analyses the accounts of medical doctors (and an anthropologist) who happened to visit Easter Island between the years... more
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      Medical SciencesAnthropologyPacific Island StudiesPolynesian Studies
"No subject in science can be deeply understood without the history of its roots and the human story behind it. This fine collection of essays does precisely that. It offers a well edited and refreshing approach to the way ‘monsters’ are... more
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      AnthropologyPacific Island StudiesPolynesian StudiesPolynesia
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      Pacific HistoryEaster IslandHistory and Culture of Easter IslandEaster Island/Rapa Nui
The connection between Sumerian, Tamil, Japanese, Basque, Hungarian and the Easter Island.
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      Japanese StudiesBasque StudiesJapanese Language And CultureJapanese Linguistics
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyCivilizational Collapses as Non-Linear System Avalanche EventsPacific Island Studies
Als ein Ergebnis der Kolonialzeit wird die Weltsprache Spanisch heute nicht nur in Europa und den Amerikas, sondern auch in Asien und Ozeanien gesprochen. Dieser Band erschliesst der Linguistik die asiatisch-ozeanische Hispanophonie... more
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      Languages and LinguisticsContact LinguisticsPidgins & CreolesSpanish Linguistics
A narrative based on the decipherment of the Easter Island tablets and the Indigenous world-view that will help restore individual and community identity back to Mother Earth.
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      HistoryCultural HistoryArchaeologyEnvironmental Science
An artists' viewpoint on an epic tale that can be found in the ancient temple of Angkor Wat: the bas relief "The Churning of the Milky Ocean". In the Mahabharata this tale is called: Samudra Manthan.
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      Ancient HistorySpiritualityVedic SanskritMegalithic Monuments
Rjabchikov, Sergei V., 2022. The Rapanui Rock Picture about the Explorers: The Plot has been Decoded Entirely. Paper. 9 pages. Abstract. In this paper Sergei V. Rjabchikov offers the complete interpretation of the Rapanui petroglyph of... more
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      Mythology And FolkloreArchaeologyLanguages and LinguisticsWriting Systems & Decipherment
Resumen. Isla de Pascua, un territorio de unos 170 km 2 , poblado por unas 6 mil personas, puede equipararse a un pueblo o una aldea. Desde 1888 Rapa Nui pertenece a Chile; situada a la distancia de 3700 km de sus costas, cumple con la... more
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      HistoryPacific Island StudiesPostcolonial StudiesPolynesia
Resumen En el presente artículo deseo ocuparme de un episodio que tenía lugar durante la visita del Capitán James Cook en Isla de Pascua (1774) y fue descrito, entre otros, por los Forster, naturalistas de su tripulación (precisamente,... more
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      AnthropologyPacific Island StudiesPolynesian StudiesPolynesia
En 2015, Rapa Nui fue escenario de un episodio trascendental para la historia contemporánea que condujo hacia un cambio sin precedentes. Movilizaciones indígenas por los derechos sobre los territorios y vestigios culturales ancestrales... more
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      Social AnthropologyEthnographic Fieldwork (Anthropology)Cultural World Heritage SitesChile
Rjabchikov, Sergei V., 2018. The Bird-man Cult in the Rapanui Rock Art and Oral Literature. Polynesia Newsletter, 16, pp. 2-32. Keywords: writing, rongorongo, folklore, rock art, Rapanui, Rapa Nui, Easter Island, Polynesia, Quechua,... more
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      ReligionMythology And FolkloreArchaeologyPrehistoric Archaeology
El presente trabajo pretende servir de ayuda a quienes quieran iniciarse en el estudio de las tablillas rongorongo (kohau motu mo roŋoroŋo) de Rapa Nui (Isla de Pascua), desgranando y aclarando los obstáculos existentes en su avance, pues... more
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      Polynesian StudiesRongorongoEaster IslandRongorongo script
La fascinación por el Pacífico siguió y aumentó en el siglo XIX gracias a escritores como Julio Verne, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson o Pierre Loti, cuya descripción de la isla de Pascua es uno de los textos escogidos por la profesora... more
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      AnthropologyEthnologyEaster Island ArchaeologyRapa Nui
Portée sur les fonts baptismaux par une hypothèse sensationnelle qui laissait augurer la découverte d’une écriture néolithique, la mission franco-belge Métraux-Lavachery à l’île de Pâques tint toutes ses promesses, mais d’une façon... more
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      History of AnthropologyEthnographic Fieldwork (Anthropology)Easter IslandRongorongo script
Resumen: Julien Viaud, conocido como Pierre Loti, visitó Isla de Pascua en condición de cadete en el año 1872. Fruto de aquel viaje fue su diario, reescrito y pulido por él mismo tras varios años. Existen traducciones española e inglesa... more
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      Translation StudiesDiarios de ViajesHistory of LiteratureHistory and Travelogues
La presente investigación analiza desde una perspectiva territorial, la gestión que realiza la Comunidad Indígena Polinésica Ma´u Henua, que es la actual administradora oficial del Parque Nacional Rapa Nui, después de que éste fuese... more
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      TerritorialityTerritorial Development and PlanningRapa NuiEaster Island/Rapa Nui
Se presenta una caracterización comparativa de la dieta rapanui en el período de la Compañía Explotadora de Isla de Pascua (1893-1953 d.C.), durante el cual se crea una fuerte dependencia de la población en productos continentales antes... more
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      Easter Island/Rapa NuiFood and alimentation
"The book is composed of three main parts. The first one comprises a vast and multifaceted background against which travel reports are later analysed, with the discussion of the problem of the ‘other’ as a point of departure. The matter... more
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      Polynesian StudiesEthnologyEaster Island ArchaeologyEaster Island
El presente ensayo analiza el desarrollo de la antropología –y en particular la antropología social chilena– en Rapa Nui y el lugar que ocupa la isla en la disciplina, al determinar sus características y aportes en la comunidad local. El... more
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      History of ScienceEaster Island/Rapa NuiAntropologia Chilenaantropologías del sur
Magic in the Traditions and Legends of Easter Island Due to occidental interventions, epidemic diseases and slave raids (18–19 c.) the population of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) almost went extinct, and their beliefs and traditions are... more
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      Cultural HeritageMagicPolynesian StudiesFolk legends
Uno de los asuntos centrales en las relaciones entre la sociedad rapanui y el Estado chileno concierne a la propiedad de la tierra y las formas de su transmisión. Se analiza aquí la configuración histórica de la propiedad en Hanga Roa,... more
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      Historical AnthropologyKinship and Relatedness (Anthropology)Political and Legal AnthropologyEaster Island/Rapa Nui
This paper uses an osteological approach and applies the study of entanglement in an attempt to understand the crematoria on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), which represent a unique tradition within the ceremonial spheres of the Polynesian... more
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      EthnohistoryArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyForensics
Explanation and conservation in archaeology require detailed representations of the archaeological record. For conservation purposes, our goal is to document the current configuration of the record with as much detail as possible. For... more
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      Easter Island ArchaeologyStructure from Motion3d ModelingEaster Island
Abstract In 1870 a Chilean warship visited Easter Island (Rapa Nui); it was a training expedition for young cadets, but the aim was also to prepare a scientific report about the island, its inhabitants and environment. This important... more
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      HistoryAnthropologyEthnographyPacific Island Studies
Rjabchikov, Sergei V., 2017. The Ancient Astronomy of Easter Island: The Urauranga te Mahina Observatory. Polynesia Newsletter, 9, pp. 2-32. Keywords: archaeoastronomy, Easter Island, Rapanui, Rapa Nui, linguistics, Polynesia,... more
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      LanguagesReligionComparative ReligionMythology And Folklore
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      Rock ArtEaster Island/Rapa Nui
The recitations of the Easter Island native Ure Vaeiko that were recorded in 1886 belong to the very small corpus of traditional Rapanui literature that has been preserved. Although the value of individual texts is disputed, the chants... more
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      Easter IslandARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY OF POLYNESIA AND EASTER ISLANDRapanuiHistory and Culture of Easter Island
The population of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in prehistoric time is believed to have numbered in the thousands although typical perennial sources of drinking water (streams, springs) are nearly absent from the island. From the accounts of... more
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyEaster Island ArchaeologyEaster Island
Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) presents a quintessential case where the tempo of investment in monumentality is central to debates regarding societal collapse, with the common narrative positing that statue platform (ahu) construction... more
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      Radiocarbon Dating (Earth Sciences)Easter Island ArchaeologyBayesian statistics & modellingSocietal Collapse
The present article is dedicated to the figure of Carl Friedrich Behrens, a member of the Dutch expedition led by Jacob Roggeveen, who discovered Easter Island in 1722. Behrens, a German soldier serving on one of the ships, left a... more
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      Easter IslandRapa NuiARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY OF POLYNESIA AND EASTER ISLANDEaster Island/Rapa Nui
Una de las claves en la historia de Rapa Nui entre fines del siglo XIX y en el siglo XX es el problema de la propiedad de la tierra. Entre 1916 y 1917 se suscitó un conflicto entre el Estado chileno y la Compañía Explotadora de Isla de... more
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      History of ChilePacific HistoryEaster Island ArchaeologyEaster Island
Popova, T., 2018. The Rapanui String Figure "Amo Moenga Roa": On a Teacher's Rongorongo "Stone Book". Polynesia Newsletter, 14, pp. 2-6. Keywords: writing, rongorongo, folklore, string figure, string game, Rapanui, Rapa Nui, Easter... more
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      Mythology And FolkloreHistoryArchaeologyFolklore
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      ArchaeologyOceania (Archaeology)Pacific ArchaeologyEaster Island Archaeology
The paper is dedicated to intercultural encounters analysed on the example of a journey narrative of 1770, which describes a Spanish expedition to Easter Island. The questions studied are the following: relations between representatives... more
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      Easter Island ArchaeologyEaster IslandRapa NuiHistory of Spanish Exploration of the Pacific
Rapa Nui is famous for its moai (statues) and ahu (platforms), yet research into the island's many basalt quarries, sources and workshops is limited. These geological and archaeological sites provided the raw materials for tools such as... more
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyGeochemistryPolitical Economy
Recent work in linguistic anthropology highlights the role of linguistic ideologies, or cultural conceptions of language, in transforming social relations and linguistic structure and use. This article examines the links between language... more
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      EthnolinguisticsLinguistic AnthropologyPolynesian StudiesLanguage Ideology
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      Art HistoryPacific Island StudiesPolynesian StudiesRapa Nui
The formidable navigational skills of the Polynesians were first replicated by the Hawaiian voyaging canoe Hokulea and her crew in 1976, and have most recently been featured in Disney’s film Moana. But what do we know about the... more
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      Polynesian StudiesArchaeoastronomyEthnoastronomyEaster Island
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      HeuristicsWriting Systems & DeciphermentArchaeological DeciphermentPolynesian Studies
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      ArchaeologyAnthropologyIndigenous StudiesIndigenous Peoples
Resumen: Aunque varias naciones podían sentirse en el derecho de reclamar la posesión de la Isla de Pascua, fue Chile que se hizo dueño de Rapa Nui. El artículo [escrito en 2010, publicado en 2017] cuenta la historia de la anexión,... more
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      HistoryColonialismPolynesian StudiesColonial Latin American History