Artículo
From Ethnographical Subjects to Archaeological Objects: Pierre Loti on Easter Island (Rapa Nui)
Fecha de publicación:
10/2014
Editorial:
Ubiquity Press
Revista:
Bulletin of the History of Archaeology
e-ISSN:
2047-6930
Idioma:
Inglés
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Resumen
In 1872 French sailor Pierre Loti visited the desolate Pacific island of Rapa Nui. Descriptions in his diary and drawings were published and received great public interest. Here were all the ingredients to satisfy nineteenth century ideas of the exotic: remote, tropical, cannibal inhabited, strange rituals and frenzied dancing, and in addition – the ruins of an ancient and unknown civilisation. But Loti had visited the island almost at the end of its occupation by its indigenous people. The large stone statues had not been erect for some time, even though he recorded them as being so, and its population had been decimated. So Loti’s graphic and written descriptions were embellished for his audience, a fact that is almost as interesting as the real fate of Rapa Nui.
Palabras clave:
Histort of Archaeology
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Easter Island
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Pierre Loti
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Rapa Nui
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Schavelzon Chavin, Daniel Gaston; From Ethnographical Subjects to Archaeological Objects: Pierre Loti on Easter Island (Rapa Nui); Ubiquity Press; Bulletin of the History of Archaeology; 24; 10-2014; 1-8
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