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The Complete Guide to Easter Island

Shawn McLaughlin

ISBN 978-1-880636-25-1

an EIF publication

soft cover; 350 pages

2007 - $25 plus shipping [#SM07]

A revised edition of The Complete Guide to Easter Island

has been released by the Easter Island Foundation. Like its

predecessor, which underwent three printings and has sold

more copies than any other EIF publication, this expanded

version brings together the latest scientific and tourist

information in a format designed to appeal to both

researchers and lay readers alike: Sections on history,

legends, conservation, island theories, antiquities, and

culture complement detailed coverage of the village of

Hanga Roa, accommodations, shopping, vehicle rental,

entertainment, island sights, and more. The Guide also

includes a chapter on the Rapanui language, an extensive

glossary, a detailed chronology, a comprehensive

bibliography, and updated island maps. With 70

additional pages, this revised Guide includes new

sections, such as discussions on the role of the sweet

potato in Oceania, dating systems used by scientists,

and listings of Easter Island artefacts found in museums

around the world. Richly illustrated and featuring black &

white and color photographs by the author. Whether you’ve

been on the island, are planning your first trip, or returning

to this most enigmatic place, The Complete Guide is your

indispensable Easter Island resource. $25 + shipping.

Order your copy from the EIF today!

(Also available from Amazon.com)

Proceeds from

the sale

of this book

benefit the

Easter Island Foundation’s scholarship

program.

Inventing 'Easter Island'

Beverly Haun

ISBN 978-0-8020-9353-0

University of Toronto Press

soft cover; 332 pages

2008 - $25.00 plus shipping [BH08]

Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as it is known to its inhabitants,

is located in the Pacific Ocean, 3600 kilometres west of

South America. It has been a source of fascination for the

world beyond the island since the first visit by Europeans

in 1722 due to its intriguing statues and complex history.

Inventing ‘Easter Island’ examines narrative strategies and

visual conventions in the discursive construction of ‘Easter

Island’ as distinct from the native conception of ‘Rapa Nui’.

It looks at the geographic imaginary that pervaded the

eighteenth century, a period of overwhelming imperial

expansion.

Beverley Haun begins with a discussion of forces that shaped

the European version of island culture and goes on to consider

the representation of that culture in the form of explorer texts

and illustrations, as well as more recent texts and images in

comic books and kitsch from off the island. Throughout,

Inventing ‘Easter Island’ is used as a case study of the

impact of imperialism on the view of a culture from outside.

The study hinges on three key points — an inquiry into the

formation of ‘Easter Island’ as a subject; an examination of

how the constructed space and culture have been shaped,

reshaped, and represented in discursive spaces; and a

discussion of cultural memory and how the constraints of

foreign texts and images have shaped thought and action

about ‘Easter Island’. Richly illustrated and unique in its

findings, Inventing ‘Easter Island’ will appeal to cultural

theorists, anthropologists, educators, and anyone

interested in the history of the South Pacific.

Easter Island 1793 to 1861: Observations

by Early Visitors Before the Slave Raids

Rhys Richards

ISBN 978-1-880636-28-2

an EIF publication

soft cover; 144 pages

2008 - $15 plus shipping [#RR08]

An exhaustive collection of reports, letters, and accounts —

some never before published — from the first ships to visit

Easter Island. A valuable scholarly edition to find a space

on every Rapanuiphile’s bookshelf!

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Prehistoric Rapa Nui. Landscape and

Settlement Archaeology at Hanga Ho´onu
 

Christopher M. Stevenson & Sonia Haoa Cardinali

(with contributions by Joan Wozniak,

Helene Martinsson-Wallin, & Paul Wallin)

ISBN 978-1-880636-26-8

an EIF publication

softcover; 297 pages; includes a fold-out map

2008 - $30 plus shipping [#SH08]

As the authors of this book show, contrary to past perceptions,

the Easter Island landscape was a highly transformed and

managed agricultural terrain that emerged in response to

deforestation by the Polynesians who settled there. This volume

adds a new dimension to scholarly investigations about why the

island’s prehistoric society evolved the way it did.

Rapa Nui, Island of Memory
 

Georgia Lee

ISBN 1-880636-23-9

an EIF publication

softcover; 212 pages

2006 - $25 plus shipping [#GL06]

This book is a celebration of the people of Rapa Nui,

embracing their continuity with the past. Georgia Lee's
memoir of her life on Easter Island in the 1980s

is a rollicking good story, by turns hilarious and poignant.

Oh, to have been there, in those simpler days!

Lee’s fieldwork has taken her to Rapa Nui countless times,

often for extended periods. She is perhaps as uniquely

comfortable deciphering the history of the place as she is

among the people themselves, who have moved from isolation

to being residents of a prized destination for tourists.

          — from the Introduction by Beverley Haun

                                              • • •

I started reading Rapa Nui, Island of Memory ...

and couldn’t put it down. It’s deep, human, real, honest, funny,

sad, informative, entertaining, inspiring — and doubtless the

best overall personal account of the island since 1919. I can

recall many of the anecdotes from early letters in 1989 as well

as our times on Rapa Nui in 1993. I had forgotten others, and

was happy to rediscover them. Some of the anecdotes, like

sourdough bread, are so precious as to approach incredibility,

yet I know they’re all true. That’s the funny thing about Rapa Nui:

Truth itself is just so funny there. The book is a splendid, human,

gutsy testimonial. From now on, when asked what books to read

before coming to Rapa Nui, I’ll say two books before all others:

Routledge’s Mystery of Easter Island and Lee’s Island of Memory.

These two women alone have captured the island’s soul.

          — Steven Roger Fischer, author of Island at the End

          of the World: The Turbulent History of Easter Island

          (Reaction Books, 2005)
 

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The Reñaca Papers. VI International Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific

VI Congreso Internacional sobre Rapa Nui y el Pacifico

Proceedings of the conference held at Reñaca, Viña del Mar, Chile, 21-25 September 2004 and hosted by The Easter Island Foundation and the University of Valparaíso, Chile

Edited by Christopher M. Stevenson, José Miguel Ramírez Aliaga, Francis J. Morin, and Norma Barbacci

ISBN 1-880636-08-5

an EIF publication

softcover; 544 pages

2005 - $35 plus shipping [#CS05]

U.S. shipping is approximately $3 media mail and $8 priority mail; Canada $9 surface and $12 airmail; overseas shipping varies from $12 surface (most countries) to $20-$30 airmail, depending on country. Please contact us for exact shipping charges.
 

This volume contains 54 papers in ten chapters, plus Keynote Address by Atholl Anderson. English papers have Spanish abstracts; Spanish papers have English abstracts. Subjects covered include palaeoenvironments, human settlement patterns, cultural identity, geophysical studies, human eco-dynamics, human biology in Polynesia, Samoan studies, anthropology and history, Pacific arts, language and culture, conservation management, and General Session.

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The Day the Stones Walked

T.A. Barron

Illustrated by William Low

ISBN-10: 0399242635

ISBN-13: 978-0399242632

Philomel Books, division of Penguin

hard cover; 32 pages

2007 - $17 plus shipping [#TB07]

From the author's Web site:

The Day the Stones Walked was inspired by my trip

to Easter Island, one of the world’s most remote —

and most mysterious — places. In this story, I imagine

what might have happened on the day people suddenly

stopped carving moai, the faces. And in my author's note,

I explore what the environmental disaster of Easter Island

might mean for the bigger island we call Earth.

Magical, dramatic paintings by William Low bring this

book to life.

Note: Reading level for ages 9 to12.

All proceeds from the sale of this book benefit the EIF.

Early Visitors to Easter Island 1864-1877

The Reports of Eugene Eyraud, Hippolyte Roussel, Pierre Loti, and Alphonse Pinart

Translated by Ann M. Altman

ISBN 1-880636-05-0

an EIF publication

soft cover; 144 pages

2004 - $15 plus shipping [#AA04]

This unique collection of eyewitness accounts describes Easter Island as it appeared after the mid-1800s. The accounts were originally written in French: the missionaries, Eyraud and Roussel, wrote for their superior of the Order of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary in Paris; Pierre Loti arrived on a French warship, La Flore, and his contribution is in the form of a diary. Alphonse Pinart came on another French warship, Seignelay. His is more of an anthropological study. Although Loti and Pinart were on the island a very short time, they still managed to see a great deal, and described the island as it was at that early date.

Previously available only in French.

An appendix compiled by Grant McCall lists all the known ship arrivals to Easter Island from 1722 to 1879, when there is one final mention of Father Roussel’s return to the island. The number of ships that stopped off at Easter Island in those early days is astonishing, considering the isolation of this tiny island in the vast Pacific Ocean.

Archaeological Survey, French Polynesia

Edmundo Edwards

																
ISBN 1880636220

an EIF publication

soft cover; 226 pages
2005 - $25 plus shipping [#EE05]

The lovely high island, Ra‘ivavae, has had a fascinating but sad history. From the arrival of missionaries, who encouraged the islanders to destroy their ancient statues and shrines, to diseases that struck the island in the early 1800s, Ra‘ivavae’s once proud society has become a quiet backwater possession of French Polynesia.

The few previous studies of Ra‘ivavae focused mainly on anthropology, although John F.G. Stokes of the Bishop Museum conducted some excavations in 1921. In 1938, Frank Stimson collected some anthropological data, as did Donald Marshall in 1957. In 1956, two members of the Norwegian Expedition excavated a few sites. But it was not until Edmundo Edwards began his work was there any effort to conduct a survey of the entire island. This important study of settlement patterns, ancient subsistence methods, and cultural history is the first ever for Ra‘ivavae and is of particular importance as modern agricultural projects and development continue to impact the evidence of the past.

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Edited by Thegn N. Ladefoged, Michael W. Graves													

ISBN 1-880636-20-4
an EIF publication

soft cover; 274 pages
2002 - $26 plus shipping [#LG02]

Pacific Landscapes: Archaeological Approaches examines how humans have created culturally significant landscapes by

building architecture and modifying the physical environment, and how that, in turn, molded human behavior. The volume considers the ways in which people prior to European contact created and lived in the landscapes of the Pacific.

This volume is edited by noted Pacific scholars, Thegn Ladefoged and Michael Graves. Papers included are by Atholl Anderson, Shankar Aswani, Ethan E. Cochrane, Janet Davidson, Julie S. Field, Roger C. Green, Michael Graves, Thegn Ladefoged, Foss Leach, Takuya Nagoaka, Blaze O'Connor, Julie M. E. Taomia, Christophe Sand, Peter J. Sheppard, Christopher Stevenson, Stephen K. Wickler,  and Richard Walter.

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read a review of Pacific 2000

by Dave Tuggle

Pacific 2000 Proceedings of the Fifth

International Conference on Easter

Island and the Pacific

Edited by 

Christopher M. Stevenson, Georgia Lee, F. J. Morin 

ISBN 1-880636-18-2
an EIF publication

soft cover; 575 pages
2001 - $35 plus shipping [#CS01]

Contains 12 chapters and 55 papers by 74 authors plus a keynote address by Dr Peter Bellwood. Subjects covered in the book include the latest research in the Pacific and range from ancient Polynesian sailing to contemporary social issues, from arts to origins, and from Micronesia to Easter

Island.

Chapter titles are: New Horizons in Pacific Research; Archaeology on Rapa Nui; Hawaiian Archaeology; Western Pacific Research; Samoan Prehistory; French Polynesian Prehistory; Arts of the Pacific I; Arts of the Pacific II; Anthropology on Rapa Nui; Polynesian Languages and Literature; Polynesian Physical Anthropology; and Conservation Problems in the Pacific.

This is a book that everyone who has any interest in Pacific studies will want to have in their library. Specially priced at only $35, you can’t afford to NOT have one! Recommend this to your university library!

Te Moana Nui:
Exploring Lost Isles
of the South Pacific

Georgia Lee

ISBN 1-880636-19-0
an EIF publication

soft cover; 163 pages

black & white photos, drawings, maps
2001 - $25.00 plus shipping [#GL01]

Based on 20 years of research and personal visits to the islands described here, archaeologist Georgia Lee, PhD, traces the "discoveries" of European explorers, whalers, missionaries, and archaeologists as well as the modern-day inhabitants of remote and isolated islands in the South Pacific Ocean. Travel with us from Tahiti to Ra'ivavae, to Rapa Iti and Morotiri, to Mangareva and Pitcairn Island, to Easter Island, and finally to the Juan Fernandez Islands. The stories originating in these perilous waters are incredible; join us for an unforgettable journey through time and across  the "great blue ocean".

Second printing by popular demand . . .

Hawaiian Hula and
Body Ornamentation
1778 - 1858

Caroline Katherine Klarr

ISBN 1-880636-07-7
an EIF publication; second printing 

soft cover; 60 pages

illustrated with rare prints and drawings,

13 black & white plates

1999 - $19.00 plus shipping [#CK00]

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Easter Island Archaeology:
Research on Early Rapanui Culture

Edited by

Christopher M. Stevenson
William S. Ayres
 

ISBN 1-880636-16-6
an EIF publication

soft cover; 224 pages; slight cover damage

black & white photos, charts, maps
2000 - $20.00 plus shipping [#SA00]

This book spans the range of modern archaeological research on Easter Island over the last fifty years. Enough time has passed that the initial pioneering work by the Norwegian team has taken on an historical interest and those events and their significance is recounted here. In addition, papers in this volume include studies dealing with ahu structure, petroglyphs, burial practice, subsistance patterns, habitation and ceremonial sites, artifacts, vegetation, and dating.

As a result of this intensity of effort and scope of inquiry, the known prehistory of Rapanui is now one of the more detailed views that we have of the populations that occupied Eastern Polynesia. The papers in this volume contribute to the core of knowledge about Rapanui and will help guide the research of the feature.

Easter Island: 
The Ceremonial Center of Orongo

Alan Drake 
illustrations by Georgia Lee

ISBN 1-880636-00-X
an EIF publication

soft cover; 110 pages

maps, black & white photos, line drawings
1992 - $14.00 plus shipping [#AD92]

from the Introduction...

Orongo is a key archaeological site on Easter Island and regularly on every visitor's itinerary. Despite this, little factual information is available for the tourist; material is scattered through various technical reports and books and many of these are out of print. Because of its association with the famous birdman cult of the islands, Orongo has a special significance for the understanding of the clouded history of this isolated island.

from the Afterword...

The ancient seafarers who first settled this small island brought their traditional way of life with them and in their isolation elaborated upon various elements of their original culture. They also brought with them the seed of their own destruction. Forests were cut for wood and the land was cleared for agriculture. The resulting erosion removed the island's soil cover. Productivity declined as the population rose. There was no longer enough wood to build traditional canoes; islanders could not sail to a more fruitful island.

The Rapanui were trapped in a declining environment they themselves created. Contact with the Western world brought not salvation but more death resulting from the slave raids and disease. The analogy to our present world is frighteningly clear: Easter Island is a microcosm of our own fragile island in space. We can learn from their example... if we will.

Spirit of Place:
Petroglyphs of Hawai'i

Georgia Lee

Edward Stasack

Awarded a Choice Award in 1999 for 

"Outstanding Academic Book"

ISBN 1-880636-14-X

an EIF publication
soft cover; 212 pages

black & white photos, line drawings

1999 - $25.00 plus shipping [#GL99]

from the cover... 

The petroglyphs of Hawai'i are much more than captivating designs. To the ancient Polynesians they had meaning and significance, including a spiritual component. Hawaiian petroglyphs deserve to be protected and preserved as non-renewable assets, gifts left behind by the ancient Hawaiians who carved their prayers and offerings into the hard lava of these Pacific Islands. 

The illuminating data in this book provides the basis for a new prospective on the Hawaiian rock art. It is based upon years of field research, scientific documentation projects, literature searches, and "talk story" with native Hawaiians. The authors describe in detail five major sites on the Big Island of Hawai'i plus the islands of Lanai and Kaho'olawe. Offering insightful, inter-island comparisons, they place the rock art of Hawai'i is into the larger realm of Polynesia. 

Lavishly illustrated with precise drawings, photographs, and statistical analyses, this book will appeal to the novice as well as to the scientist.

The Easter Island Bulletins
of William Mulloy

Reprinted and Bound in a Single Volume, 
Together with Two Other Papers 

Introduction by Patrick C. McCoy

ISBN 1-880636-04-2

a joint publication of 
the World Monuments Fund 
and the Easter Island Foundation

soft cover; 170 pages

1997 - $25.00 plus shipping [#WM97]

Published in the 60s and 70s as a series of separate volumes by the World Monuments Fund, these important works have been out of print for many years. This new collection contains the four original bulletins with all plates and illustrations, plus two other important papers. 

Bulletin 1
Preliminary Report of Archaeological Field Work, February-July 1968 

Bulletin 2
Preliminary Report of the Restoration of Ahu Vai Uri 

Bulletin 3
Preliminary Report of the Restoration of Ahu Huri a Urenga and Two Unnamed Ahu at Hanga Kio'e 

Bulletin 4
Preliminary Report of the Restoration of The Ceremonial Center of Orongo, Part 1 

Contemplate the Navel of the World 

Preliminary Culture-Historical Research Model for Easter Island

Easter Island in the Pacific Context
South Seas Symposium - Proceedings

of the Fourth International Conference

on Easter Island and East Polynesia

Edited by

Christopher M. Stevenson

Georgia Lee

F.J. Morin

ISBN 1-880636-13-1

an EIF publication

soft cover; 412 pages

black & white photographs

1998 - $37 plus shipping [#CS98]

A few copies of the Albuquerque conference papers, held at the University of New Mexico in 1997, are still available. This volume contains 64 papers by 90 authors. The chapter titles are: East Polynesian Languages and Literatures; Past, Present and Future: Polynesian Art in Context; Environmental Issues in Rapa Nui and East Polynesia; The Human Osteology of Rapa Nui; Archaeological Studies on Rapa Nui and in East Polynesia; Hawaiian Archaeology in the 1990s; Lithic Resources and Uses of Stone in Oceania; Body Ornamentation in the Pacific; Contemporary and Historical Aspects of Polynesian Culture. The volume is a nice companion to the Pacific 2000 Conference book!

Read a full review of this collection here.

Rapa Nui Journal 
The Journal of the
Easter Island Foundation

ISSN 1040-1385

an EIF publication
published bi-annually (in May and October)

available to EIF members only
$40 per year U.S., $50 per year foreign

$30 per year U.S. students, $40 per year foreign students

[#RN85]

The premier source for Easter Island. It contains scientific articles by leading experts in Polynesian studies, book reviews, feature articles, and the latest news from the island. Keep in touch with your favorite island in the center of the world!

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The Rapa Nui Journal

15-year Index (1985-2001)

Compiled by

Marilyn G. Stearns

48 pages

$10 plus shipping [#MS01]

This index lists all articles and reviews by volume, author, and title.

Ingrained Images:
Wood Carvings
from Easter Island 

Joan Seaver Kurze

ISBN 1-880636-12-3

an EIF publication

soft cover; 82 pages

105 color plates, black & white photographs,

line drawings; handsomely illustrated

1997 - $25.00 plus shipping [#JS97]

an excerpt... 

Wood carvings collected in early times often were human figures both male and female but the majority were male. Also, there were many images of various human-animal figures known today as anthropomorphic zoomorphs. Birds and lizards appear most frequently in these human / animal combinations. Some carvings incorporate fish imagery and other sea forms such as octopus and eel.

Another group consists of ceremonial objects that were hung about the neck or perhaps carried during ceremonies; next come paddles, clubs, and various status signifiers such as the ao. And finally, the unique rongorongo tablets. To our knowledge, all of these images served a purpose in ancient times.

The last group of carvings to be described are the modern church santos and finally the "tourist" art that is specially created for sale to tourists.

Te Tumu o Rapa Nui

Catherine Orliac & Véronique Willemin

ISBN 1-880-636-02-6

an EIF publication

spiral bound; 40 pages

2005 - $12 plus shipping [OW05]

This charming children's book follows two little Rapanui girls,

Hierangi and Vaiahani, who have many adventures while

searching for a toromiro tree on Easter Island. The text is in

Rapanui, English, Spanish, and French.

Speak Rapanui! ¡Habla Rapanui!

Ana Betty Haoa Rapahango & William Liller

ISBN 1-880-636-03-4

an EIF publication; second printing

soft cover; 133 pages

2003 - $12 plus shipping [BH03]

A guide to the Rapanui language in  English, Spanish, and Rapanui. Contains common words and a brief grammar.

Easter Island - Rapa Nui:

Scientific Pathways to Secrets of the Past

Andreas Mieth & Hans-Rudolf Bork

Translated by Detlef Busche

ISBN 3-9809823-0-0

Department of Ecotechnology & Ecosystem Development, Ecology Center, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel