Rapa Nui Journal Volume 29 Issue 2
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Item Mata Rangi(2015-10-01)Item Cover(2015-10-01)Item Getting to Know You Diego Muñoz(2015-10-01)Item Easter Island Foundation News(2015-10-01)Item News(2015-10-01) Padgett, AntoinetteItem Pendleton, Steve and Maddock, David. Collecting Easter Island – Stamps and Postal History(2015-10-01) Stevenson, Christopher M.Item Stilton, Geronimo. The Treasure of Easter Island(2015-10-01) Padgett, AntoinetteItem Terevaka Archaeological Outreach (TAO) 2015 field report: Archaeology, conservation, and toponymy(2015-10-01) Shepardson,Britton L.; Atán,Beno; Calderón,Toria; Droppelmann,Gonzalo; Godinez,Julia; González,Catalina; Guerrero,Victoria; Ika,Yumi; Ledesma,Madison; Monares,Omar; Mullin,Erin; Nahoe,Ariki; Pakarati,Tiare; Pérez,Franco; Quezada,Ietu; Sanford,Sara; Shpardson,Dylan; Te Ra‘a,Ma‘ehaTerevaka Archaeological Outreach (TAO) is a volunteer program that has provided educational opportunities for youths local to the Rapa Nui community since 2003. The long-term goals of TAO are: (1) to offer experiential learning opportunities specific to cultural and natural resources that surround the local community; (2) to promote awareness and expertise in conservation measures and sustainable development; and (3) to document and study both cultural and natural phenomena of the past today. TAO has now provided educational opportunities to approximately 115 local high school students. Our alumni have gained inspiration to complete university degrees in fields such as archaeology, conservation, history, and cultural anthropology. Several of these students now hold official positions in governmental, private, and educational organizations on the island that will be of critical importance in the island’s near and distant futureItem Terevaka Archaeological Outreach (TAO) 2015 field report: Engineering and renewable energy(2015-10-01) Petney,Matthew; ,Lamb,Marilla; Shpardson,Dylan; Shapardson,Britton L.; Arancibia,Eduardo; ,Atán,Beno; Belen,Tea; Droppelmann,Gonzalo; Godinez,Julia; Haunani,Kamilha; Icka,Kiara; Isla,Katalina; Ledesma,Madison; Monares,Omar; Mullin,Erin; Nahoe,Ariki; Sanford,Sara; Tuki,TahiraFor the past twelve years, Terevaka Archaeological Outreach (TAO) has offered educational programs for young people in the Rapa Nui community – focusing on the study and conservation of cultural resources. In 2014, local community leaders suggested that in addition to the successful archaeological outreach program, the island would benefit from an educational program that introduced young people to engineering and technology. During the ensuing ten months, we developed a hands-on engineering curriculum to be implemented in Spanish for a small group of high school students participating in the TAO 2015 program.Item Foerster, Rolf (Ed.). Rapa Nui. El colonialismo republicano chileno cuestionado (1902-1905)(2015-10-01) Pakarati, Cristián MorenoItem The 1946 trip to Rapa Nui through the photographs of Gerstmann, Helfritz, and Felbermayer(2015-10-01) Brockman, Tania Basterrica; Rapahango, Betty HaoaMany of us have seen the photographs of Robert Gerstmann or Hans Helfritz taken on Rapa Nui in 1946. In this paper, we describe their cruise around the island, motivation, and situations that shaped these photographs. On a journey that lasted 36 days, including passage through the archipelago of Juan Fernández on a vessel of the Navy, a group of professionals was sent by the government to assess the problems of the Rapanui natives. They were accompanied by Fritz Felbermayer, who was the geologist of the “Comisión Isla de Pascua” [Easter Island Commission], along with Robert Gerstmann and Hans Helfritz. The three European residents of Chile, with cameras around their necks, photographed the same scenes on the island, but each from their own angle. In this paper, with the help of an article published by Felbermayer in the newspaper El Mercurio de Valparaíso in February 1947 recounting how his native guides were expert fishermen and hunters, we take this graphic testimony and create a photo blog that provides an account of a moment in the history of Rapa Nui, a legacy that has survived until today, thanks to the interest and dedication that these three friends captured in their photographs.Item Ancient systems of resource management on the island of Pohnpei, Micronesia(2015-10-01) Thompson, AdamAncient sites associated with the management of particular resources have been identified within three ancient political centers found on the island of Pohnpei in Eastern Micronesia. These sites show that the management of particular resources for food, personal adornment, and the decoration of canoes were controlled by chiefly figures throughout the development of Pohnpei’s ancient political system.Item The Rapanui diaspora in Tahiti and the lands of Pamatai (1871-1970)(2015-10-01) Muñoz, DiegoWhen commercial flights between Rapa Nui and Tahiti began in 1968, after nearly 70 years of colonial confinement, a new migratory process began from Rapa Nui to Tahiti. This included claims of ownership of the lands of Pamatai, bought 80 years earlier by a group of 25 Rapanui immigrants. For the Rapanui people, the history of the lands of Pamatai evokes a series of memories and forgotten events, genealogical ties, as well as a constant search for a linkage with Tahiti – a “memory of diaspora.” In this paper, I analyze the history of links between Rapanui people and Tahiti and the role of the lands of Pamatai in the Rapanui migration process: the exodus during the nineteenth century, confinement on Easter Island, the broken link with Tahiti, and Rapanui claims for ownership of the lands of Pamatai after the 1970s.Item