Book
Ethnology of Easter Island
The Museum • Honolulu, Hawaii • Published In 1940 • Pages: 1 l., vii, [3]-432
By: Métraux, Alfred.
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2016
- Region
- Oceania
- Sub Region
- Polynesia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Robert Lee ; 1961
- Field Date
- 1934-1935
- Coverage Date
- 1722-1936
- Coverage Place
- Easter Island, Valparaíso, Chile
- Notes
- Alfred Métraux
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-429)
- LCCN
- 40029585
- LCSH
- Ethnology--Easter Island
- Rapanui language--Texts