In this groundbreaking study, Riet Delsing narrates the colonization of the Pacific island of Rapa Nui and its indigenou
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Table of contents :
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