Rongorongo : the Easter Island script : history, traditions, texts
| 1. Verfasser: |
Fischer, Steven R.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford [England] :
Clarendon Press,
1997.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xix, 714 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics
14 |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Isla de Pascua |
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Table of contents only Publisher description |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Pt. I. History. 1. The "Signatures" of 1770. 2. The "Great Death" 3. Discovery. 4. Destruction. 5. Rediscovery. 6. The Search Begins. 7. Miklukho-Maklai. 8. Growing European Interest. 9. Bishop Jaussen and Metoro Tau'a Ure. 10. Croft, Harrison, and Palmer. 11. Into the 1880s. 12. William Judah Thomson and Ure Va'e Iko. 13. The Close of the Nineteenth Century. 14. "How Can the Riddle Be Solved?" 15. Katherine Pease Routledge. 16. Fantasts and Speculators. 17. The Franco-Belgian Expedition and Alfred Metraux. 18. From von Heine-Geldern to Heyerdahl. 19. The St. Petersburg School. 20. Thomas S. Barthel. 21. Pebbles and Pearls
- Pt. II. Traditions. 22. The Informant Problem. 23. Nomenclature. 24. Categories of Inscriptions. 25. Songs. 26. Tapu. 27. The Experts and Nga'ara. 28. Rongorongo Rites. 29. The "Rongorongo Schools" 30. Reading. 31. Language. 32. Whence and When?
- Pt. III. Texts. 33. Material Resources. 34. Production. 35. Naming the Rongorongo. 36. Statistics.
