Articulating Rapa Nui : : Polynesian Cultural Politics in a Latin American Nation-State / / Riet Delsing.

In this groundbreaking study, Riet Delsing narrates the colonization of the Pacific island of Rapa Nui and its indigenous inhabitants. The annexation of the island by Chile, in the heydays of world imperialism, places the small Latin American country in a unique position in the history of global col...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2015
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 11 illustrations, 1 map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One. Challenging the Nation- State
  • Chapter 1. Chilean Colonization and Rapanui Resilience
  • Chapter 2. Integration into the Nation- State and the Beginnings of a Rapanui Identity Discourse
  • Chapter 3. The Road to Self- determination
  • Part Two. Polynesian Cultural Politics and Global Imaginaries
  • Chapter 4. Rapanui Appropriations and Re sis tance
  • Chapter 5. Performing Culture
  • Chapter 6. Vanaŋa Rapanui
  • Chapter 7. Kaiŋa Rapanui
  • Chapter 8. The Polynesian Homeland: A Sea of Islands
  • Chapter 9. Rapa Nui as Fantasy and Commodity
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author