10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RAPA NUI»
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Rapa Nui in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Rapa Nui and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Easter Island:
Rapa Nui
In this book, we review the history of an island located in the middle of the South Pacific, halfway between Continental Chile and Tahiti: Rapa Nui.
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Rapa Nui Settlers: By Choice and Necessity the Sequel of ...
Any Rapa Nui great priest could have said these words. The answer is simple
and was given by the Light a long time ago: "Look deep inside yourself where
truth is found, temper your abysmal arrogance, and we will all live well, in peace.
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Webster's
Rapa Nui - English Thesaurus Dictionary
This book may be the first Rapa Nui-English thesaurus ever published. All the errors and omissions are mine.
Rapa Nui is a lonely place, a 170-square-kilometer pinpoint of land some 2300
kilometers from the next inhabitable island. Known as “Easter Island” to English-
speakers, it's a mysterious place, too, with some 200 massive stone statues, ...
Robert Kelly, David Thomas, 2009
A group of visitors observe a "traditional" greeting ceremony. In Rapa Nui, where
tourism is the economic mainstay, an ersatz folklore originally developed in other
Pacific areas has now almost completely replaced the ancient culture. dwellers ...
We spoke to Enrique Tucki, director of Parque Nacional Rapa Nui (p87). What
should travellers be aware of when visiting Easter Island? Visitors mustn't walk
on the ahu (ceremonial stone platforms), as they are revered by locals as burial
sites ...
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Pacific Nations and Territories: The Islands of Micronesia, ...
Geography Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, represents the southeast
point of the Polynesian triangle. The closest inhabited neighbor is tiny Pitcairn,
1,500 miles (2,400 km) to the west. Thus it is farther away from other inhabited
places ...
8
Consequences of Contact : Language Ideologies and ...
By choosing to use purist Rapa Nui and erasing Spanish elements in public
speeches where the audience includes monolingual Spanish-speaking
Continentals, the speakers are able to fortify the ethnic boundaries between
Chileans and ...
Miki Makihara Assistant Professor of Anthropology Queens College, Bambi B. Schieffelin Professor of Anthropology New York University, 2007
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We are a People: Narrative and Multiplicity in Constructing ...
Out of curiosity later that day I asked a Rapa Nui the same question. The answer
was that about one-third of the people, perhaps 900 or 1,000, were Chileans. I
then made a frequent habit of asking this question of both Continentals and Rapa
...
Paul R. Spickard, W. Jeffrey Burroughs, 2000
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Pacific Neighbors: The Islands of Micronesia, Melanesia, and ...
EASTER ISLAND (RAPA NUI) (.GEOGRAPHY Rapa Nui is also known as Easter
Island. It is in the south and east part of the Polynesian triangle (see p. 127). The
closest island where people live is tiny Pitcairn, which is 1,500 miles (2,400 km) ...
Betty Dunford, Reilly Ridgell, 1996
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RAPA NUI»
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Rapa Nui is used in the context of the following news items.
Organizers vow to sink more time, money into botched Rapa Nui …
A day after 15 Easter Island-style statues were crushed by a scuttled barge in a botched try to create an underwater sculpture garden, organizers on Monday ... «Sun Sentinel, Jun 15»
Rapa Nui artificial reef on its way to Deerfield Beach
There was an interesting sight cruising down the St. Lucie waterway and Intracoastal this week. Fifteen Easter Island style Moai statues, ranging from 6 to 22 feet ... «WPTV.com, Jun 15»
New Easter Island Themed Reef Making Waves In Deerfield Beach
Rapa Nui are the native Polynesian inhabitants of Easter Island. The Rapa Nui Reef serves as a tribute to the iconic stone figures found on the island. There are ... «CBS Local, Jun 15»
Nine Reasons to Travel to Easter Island
Rapa Nui's enigmatic stone statues have long drawn travelers to this isolated Pacific island, but with its wealth of outdoor pursuits and culture there's so much ... «Huffington Post, Apr 15»
Has the Easter Island mystery been solved?
And now experts believe they have finally discovered how the Rapa Nui people placed distinctive 'hats' made of red stone on top of some of the figures' heads, ... «Daily Mail, Apr 15»
Easter Island heads to rise from sea floor off Deerfield Beach
Rapa Nui Reef, named for its native Polynesian inhabitants, will be 15 statues of cast concrete, rising 6 to 22 feet from a 9-foot-tall ocean barge on the ocean ... «Sun Sentinel, Apr 15»
'Easter Island head': Rapa Nui statue arrives in Manchester
A three tonne "Easter Island head" has been manoeuvred into place for an exhibition ... about Rapa Nui, which was named Easter Island by European explorers. «BBC News, Mar 15»
Researchers Solve Piece of Easter Island Mystery
(Newser) – The ongoing debate over what prompted the decline of Easter Island's native Polynesian inhabitants, known as Rapa Nui, is being clarified by ... «Newser, Jan 15»
Easter Island - Rapa Nui Extinction Reasons Determined By Scientists
The reasons as to why the Polynesians that once lived on Easter Island, called the Rapa Nui, has long been debated. Some scientists argued that the Rapa Nui ... «The Inquisitr, Jan 15»
Easter Islanders Petered Out After Europeans Came
A new way of looking at the history of the Rapa Nui, the civilization that lived on Easter Island, reveals details about how they lived before Europeans arrived on ... «Discovery News, Jan 15»
