Rapa Nui Journal Volume 20 Issue 1

All great events ... in world history reappear

...the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

Karl Marx (1852)

THE RAPA NUl MARATHON OF 2005 was the grand finale of an action-packed weekend in June, usually a quiet time of year on the island.

SURELY THE BIG NEWS OF THE ISLANDS concern the appointment of Melania Carolina Hotus Hey as governor of Rapa Nui.

AS A CANADlA CULTURAL THEORIST deeply committed to Rapa Nui, the implicit endorsement by a major Canadian periodical of Montreal artist Bill Vazan's so-called "Iandwork ," recently superimposed on Rapa Nui like so much graffiti, is appalling in several ways.

REVIEWING THE COPIOUS LITERATURE dealing with Easter Island, we find conflicting figure for the land area of the island.

'A Po (THE RAPANUI YOUTH INVOLVEMENT PROGRAM) began in 2003 as an educational outreach program offered by the Padre Sebastian Englert Anthropological Museum on Rapa Nui. For the last three years, the program has involved local Rapa Nui high school students in various scientific research projects.

EVERYONE TRYING TO GATHER a bookshelf devoted to Easter Island is well familiar with the difficulties of this task, as numerous titles dedicated to the turbulent Rapa Nui history and its vast cultural heritage are out-of-print for years.