I am a Social Anthropologist (PhD EHESS, France 2017) and Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich(www.indigen.eu). Since 2005, I have been studying Rapanui society (Easter Island) from an ethnographic, historical, and, multi-site viewpoint. After having worked on the long history of the Rapanui diaspora (Chile, Rapa Nui, French Polynesia), my current projects are centered around Rapanui governance (past — present — future) and, the history of Rapanui museological collections (collectors’ network, temporalities, and indigenous actors.

Kinship, Land Dispute, Law and Culture, Migration, Regional History, Social Change, Social Organization, Tourism, Cultural Change, Diasporas, Ethnicity, Identity, Anthropology Of Policy, Customary Law, Globalization, Indigenization, Indigenous Political Movements, Indigenous Politics, Interethnic Relations, Decolonization

History
Anthropology

Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Polynesia
Chili
French Polynesia
Gambier Islands
Society Islands

20th century
21st century
The Colonial time
First and Early contacts