Book
Ethnology of Easter Island
The Museum • Honolulu, Hawaii • Published In 1940 • Pages: 1 l., vii, [3]-432
By: Métraux, Alfred.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Compiled by a member of a 1934-35 Franco-Belgian expedition, this monograph presents both original fieldwork and data from existing sources. Themes include the history, geography, material culture, social life, religion, art, warfare, tales, legends, and pictographic script of Easter Islanders. The author is more interested in reconstructing the past than in describing the contemporary culture of the Christianized natives. By comparing various cultural traits found on Easter Island with those of neighboring Polynesian islands, he concludes that Easter Island is a local Polynesian culture that developed from an archaic and undifferentiated Polynesian civilization.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Traditional history
- History
- Fishing
- Fishing gear
- Vegetable production
- Normal garb
- Body alterations
- Weapons
- Art
- Chief executive
- Religious beliefs
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Rapa Nui
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Polynesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Robert Lee ; 1961
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1934-1935
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1722-1936
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Easter Island, Valparaíso, Chile
- NotesAdditional notes
- Alfred Métraux
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-429)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 40029585
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ethnology--Easter Island
- Rapanui language--Texts