Add to ORKGI have heard that novice anthropologists often enter the field thinking they know it all and then soon discover that they don't. I thought I knew nothing - and never discovered I had been wrong in that. In February 2002 I arrived to do my Ph.D. fieldwork on the Rapanui youth under the supervision of Grant McCall. As no one had studied the Rapanui youth so far, I had plenty of possible topics concerning the 761 islanders aged between 15 and 29 (national census, 2002), but I was personally most interested in the simple question: What is it like to be young in such a small, faraway and yet quite famous place?</p
Content: Lost Islands Cruise by Georgia Lee Has the British Museum a "stolen friend" from Rapa Nui? ...
Rapanui is the world's most remote continuously inhabited place and this isolation enclosed its rema...
Going to the field to conduct research has a long tradition of being one of the critical professiona...
When I arrived on Rapanui on I April 1972, I was fortunate to know and work (after some months) with...
The archaeology of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) has received a tremendous amount of attention in the las...
Q. How did you get into archaeology, and specifically Easter Island archaeology? What triggered your...
Rapa Nui (Easter Island) has for centuries been known as an isolated island of archaeological myster...
Rapanui today is as bursting with cultural activity in the twenty-first century as it was at any tim...
'A Po (THE RAPANUI YOUTH INVOLVEMENT PROGRAM) began in 2003 as an educational outreach program offer...
During late April and early May 1998. I was asked to take part in the filming of a NOVA TV special o...
Alphonse L. Pinart (1852-1911), anthropologist and linguist, had established himself as a tireless d...
Katherine Routledge's remark about Rapa Nui in 1914, that "the inhabitants of today are less real th...
People's lives and their social and economic activities are influenced by the environment that, alon...
The entire population of Easter Island (approximately 2500 people) lives today in Hanga Roa, the cap...
Masters of ArtsPacific Islands StudiesIn June, 2006 I returned to Aotearoa New Zealand after being a...
Content: Lost Islands Cruise by Georgia Lee Has the British Museum a "stolen friend" from Rapa Nui? ...
Rapanui is the world's most remote continuously inhabited place and this isolation enclosed its rema...
Going to the field to conduct research has a long tradition of being one of the critical professiona...
When I arrived on Rapanui on I April 1972, I was fortunate to know and work (after some months) with...
The archaeology of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) has received a tremendous amount of attention in the las...
Q. How did you get into archaeology, and specifically Easter Island archaeology? What triggered your...
Rapa Nui (Easter Island) has for centuries been known as an isolated island of archaeological myster...
Rapanui today is as bursting with cultural activity in the twenty-first century as it was at any tim...
'A Po (THE RAPANUI YOUTH INVOLVEMENT PROGRAM) began in 2003 as an educational outreach program offer...
During late April and early May 1998. I was asked to take part in the filming of a NOVA TV special o...
Alphonse L. Pinart (1852-1911), anthropologist and linguist, had established himself as a tireless d...
Katherine Routledge's remark about Rapa Nui in 1914, that "the inhabitants of today are less real th...
People's lives and their social and economic activities are influenced by the environment that, alon...
The entire population of Easter Island (approximately 2500 people) lives today in Hanga Roa, the cap...
Masters of ArtsPacific Islands StudiesIn June, 2006 I returned to Aotearoa New Zealand after being a...
Content: Lost Islands Cruise by Georgia Lee Has the British Museum a "stolen friend" from Rapa Nui? ...
Rapanui is the world's most remote continuously inhabited place and this isolation enclosed its rema...
Going to the field to conduct research has a long tradition of being one of the critical professiona...