[PDF] Inventing Easter Island eBook

Author : Beverley Haun
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 10,2 MB
Release : 2008-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1442693096

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Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as it is known to its inhabitants, is located in the Pacific Ocean, 3600 kilometres west of South America. Annexed by Chile in 1888, the island has been a source of fascination for the world beyond the island since the first visit by Europeans in 1722 due to its intriguing statues and complex history. Inventing 'Easter Island' examines narrative strategies and visual conventions in the discursive construction of 'Easter Island' as distinct from the native conception of 'Rapa Nui.' It looks at the geographic imaginary that pervaded the eighteenth century, a period of overwhelming imperial expansion. Beverley Haun begins with a discussion of forces that shaped the European version of island culture and goes on to consider the representation of that culture in the form of explorer texts and illustrations, as well as more recent texts and images in comic books and kitsch from off the island. Throughout, 'Easter Island' is used as a case study of the impact of imperialism on the view of a culture from outside. The study hinges on three key points - an inquiry into the formation of 'Easter Island' as a subject; an examination of how the constructed space and culture have been shaped, reshaped, and represented in discursive spaces; and a discussion of cultural memory and how the constraints of foreign texts and images have shaped thought and action about 'Easter Island.' Richly illustrated and unique in its findings, Inventing 'Easter Island' will appeal to cultural theorists, anthropologists, educators, and anyone interested in the history of the South Pacific.

Author : Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 18,73 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN :

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Discusses the mysteries of Easter Island including how the statues were made and moved, and where the Easter Islanders themselves came from?

Author : Katherine Routledge
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 22,58 MB
Release : 2023-07-10
Category : Travel
ISBN :

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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 : Jennifer Vanderbes
Publisher : Dial Press Trade Paperback
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 13,99 MB
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385336748

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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.

Author : Heather Moore Niver
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 50,84 MB
Release : 1900-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1482404478

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On an island in the Pacific Ocean more than 1,000 miles from the nearest habitable location, ancient people constructed hundreds of enormous stone heads. No one is sure exactly how they moved the giant statues into place. In fact, no one really knows how people got there in the first place! Readers are sure to enjoy learning about the mystery surrounding Easter Island. Colorful images of the moai, flora, fauna, and more help transport readers to this amazing world wonder.

Author : John A. Torres
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1545749531

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To some, Easter Island is just a tiny bit of volcanic rock in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. To others, it is the source of one of mankind's greatest mysteries. Easter Island is home to hundreds of giant statues that people built centuries ago, but no one knows why. The statues are amazing. Some of them wear headdresses made from red stone. Others have large pieces of coral for eyes. Almost as mysterious as the statues themselves is the fact that so many of them were never finished. In fact, tools used to make the huge stone structures were left right near the unfinished works. What happened on Easter Island? And why does it continue to captivate us?

Author : Lenore Franzen
Publisher : The Creative Company
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 21,56 MB
Release : 2005-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781583413586

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Provides an overview of what archaeologists know about the ancient carved structures of Easter Island and the people who created them.

Author : Silvia Ferrara
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,94 MB
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0374601631

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In this exhilarating celebration of human ingenuity and perseverance—published all around the world—a trailblazing Italian scholar sifts through our cultural and social behavior in search of the origins of our greatest invention: writing. The L where a tabletop meets the legs, the T between double doors, the D of an armchair’s oval backrest—all around us is an alphabet in things. But how did these shapes make it onto the page, never mind form complex structures such as this sentence? In The Greatest Invention, Silvia Ferrara takes a profound look at how—and how many times—human beings have managed to produce the miracle of written language, traveling back and forth in time and all across the globe to Mesopotamia, Crete, China, Egypt, Central America, Easter Island, and beyond. With Ferrara as our guide, we examine the enigmas of undeciphered scripts, including famous cases like the Phaistos Disk and the Voynich Manuscript; we touch the knotted, colored strings of the Inca quipu; we study the turtle shells and ox scapulae that bear the earliest Chinese inscriptions; we watch in awe as Sequoyah single-handedly invents a script for the Cherokee language; and we venture to the cutting edge of decipherment, in which high-powered laser scanners bring tears to an engineer’s eye. A code-cracking tour around the globe, The Greatest Invention chronicles a previously uncharted journey, one filled with past flashes of brilliance, present-day scientific research, and a faint, fleeting glimpse of writing’s future.