Rapanui - Easter Island (Chile)
The World Factbook: Wikipedia: Easter Island (Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui, Spanish: Isla de Pascua) is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle. Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapa Nui people. In 1995, UNESCO named Easter Island a World Heritage Site, with much of the island protected within Rapa Nui National Park.
Polynesian people settled on Easter Island in the first millennium AD, and created a ...read more [Source: Wikipedia ]
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Katherine AIGNER Research Fellow, College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University, AustraliaKeywords: Cosmology , Customary Law , Environmental History , Indigenous Epistemology , Knowledge Repatriation , Material Culture , Museums , Nuclear Imperialism , Ritual And Religion , Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Ian CONRICH Professor, Visual and Material Culture at University of Vienna, AustriaKeywords: Film Studies , Audiovisual and Media , Media And National Identity , Popular Culture , Post-Colonialism , Visual Anthropology , Material Culture , Museums , Multiculturalism , Anthropology of Tourism
Emmanuelle CRANE Adjunct Professor, History, Media studies at Sorbonne Paris 4, FranceKeywords: Engaged Anthropology , Ethnographic Filmmaking , French Overseas Territories , Gender Violence , Justice , Media And National Identity , Pacific Media , Post-Colonialism , Violence , Sexual Assaults
Paul D'ARCY Associate Professor, Department of Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University, AustraliaKeywords: Climate Change , Agency , Anthropology , Conflict Resolution , Coral Reefs , Cultural Geography , Development Studies , Fisheries , Food History , History
Valentina FAJRELDIN Assistant Professor, Instituto de Salud Poblacional Dr. Salvador Allende, Facultad de Medicina at Universidad de Chile, ChileKeywords: (Politics Of) Knowledge , Anthropological Fieldwork , Anthropology Of Care , Anthropology Of Sciences , Applied Anthropology , Anti-colonial , Anthropology Of Knowledge , Anthropology Of Policy , Autoethnography , Biomedicine
Aymeric HERMANN Adjunct/associate Researcher, UMR 7041 at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, FranceKeywords: Austronesian Prehistory , Cultural Technology , Exchanges , Material Culture , Techniques , Polynesian Chiefdoms , Social Organization , Anthropology , Geochemistry
Helene MARTINSSON-WALLIN Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Campus Gotland at Uppsala University, SwedenKeywords: Architectural Anthropology , Austronesian Prehistory , Cultural Change , Cultural Heritage , Heritage Management , Material Culture , Migration , Polynesian Chiefdoms , Post-Colonialism , Spatial Theory
Grant MCCALL Other staff, Department of Anthropology at University of Sydney, AustraliaKeywords: Age and Aging , Coconut , Bureaucratization , Colonial Imagination , Cultural Heritage , First Contacts , Identity , Intellectual Property Rights , Inter-ethnic Relations , Kinship
Carlos MONDRAGON Associate Professor, Centro de Estudios de Asia y África at El Colegio de México, MexicoKeywords: Indigenous Epistemology , Climate Change , Climate Policy , Anthropology of Ontology , Cultural Geography , Ecology , First Contacts , History , Horticulture , Knowledge
Hermann MUECKLER Professor, Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Vienna, AustriaKeywords: Historical Imagination , Mission History , Post-Colonialism , Neo-Colonialism , Colonialism , Conflict Management , Cultural Studies , History , Material Culture , Peace And Conflict
Diego MUÑOZ Postdoctoral Fellow, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie. at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, FranceKeywords: Indigenous Peoples Rights , Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relations , Political Anthropology , Rapanui , State , Sovereignty , Diasporas
Andrea SEELENFREUND Professor, Escuela de Antropología at Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, ChileKeywords: Colonial Discourse , Cultural Studies , Cultural Heritage , Ethnobotany , Genetic Diversity , Genetic Resources , Natural Resources , Tapa , Textiles / Fibre Arts , Anthropology Of Sciences
Official Websites Gobernación Provincia de Isla de Pascua... UNESCO - Rapa Nui National Park... UCL Institute of Archaeology - Rapa Nui La...
Libraries and Archives Biblioteca William Mulloy - El Museo Antro...
Museum Collections American Museum of Natural History... Australian Museum... Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum...
Health and Health Research Ministerio de Salud Gobierno de Chile...
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