Easter Island
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1552976211
ISBN 13
9781552976210
Category
990-999 General History
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Publication Year
2002
Publisher
Pages
160
Subject
Easter Island -- History.
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Abstract
An illustrated history of Easter Island including its art, culture, environment and people
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Surrounded by the immense expanse of the Pacific Ocean, over 2,000 miles from the nearest inhabited land, tiny Easter Island with an area of only 46 square miles is incredibly isolated.
Easter Island is most famous for the giant statues that have fascinated the world since the island's discovery by European explorers in the early eighteenth century. How did a small, isolated society with limited resources create these magnificent monuments? How were these statues, some weighing 200 tons, transported for miles across the island? And, more mysteriously, what role did they play in the religion and social order of the people who created them?
These and many other questions surrounding Easter Island are addressed in Carlos Mordo's new book. The author reveals that this island on the outermost edge of Polynesia hosted a rich culture where shamans and priests, and a mystical belief in ancestor gods, directed the life and death of the islanders, who thrived, created these statues of startling originality, then disappeared.
Easter Island also examines the island's unique environment and ultimately how its degradation, and contact with Europeans in the eighteenth century, had profound consequences for the island's people.
Illustrated with over 150 color photographs, Easter Island is a fascinating exploration of the history and living culture of this remarkable island.
Synopsis
An illustrated history of Easter Island including its art, culture, environment and people.
Surrounded by the immense expanse of the Pacific Ocean, over 2,000 miles from the nearest inhabited land, tiny Easter Island with an area of only 46 square miles is incredibly isolated.
Easter Island is most famous for the giant statues that have fascinated the world since the island's discovery by European explorers in the early eighteenth century. How did a small, isolated society with limited resources create these magnificent monuments? How were these statues, some weighing 200 tons, transported for miles across the island? And, more mysteriously, what role did they play in the religion and social order of the people who created them?
These and many other questions surrounding Easter Island are addressed in Carlos Mordo's new book. The author reveals that this island on the outermost edge of Polynesia hosted a rich culture where shamans and priests, and a mystical belief in ancestor gods, directed the life and death of the islanders, who thrived, created these statues of startling originality, then disappeared.
Easter Island also examines the island's unique environment and ultimately how its degradation, and contact with Europeans in the eighteenth century, had profound consequences for the island's people.
Illustrated with over 150 color photographs, Easter Island is a fascinating exploration of the history and living culture of this remarkable island.
Synopsis
An illustrated history of Easter Island including its art, culture, environment and people.
Biblio Notes
Genre/Form: History
Pictorial works
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Mordo, Carlos.
Easter Island.
Auckland, N.Z. : D. Bateman, 2002
(OCoLC)653323018
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Carlos Mordo; Graciela Smith
ISBN: 1552976211 9781552976210
OCLC Number: 48987630
Notes: "Translation: Graciela Smith"--T.p. verso.
Translated from the Spanish.
Description: 160 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction: the mysterious island --
The navel of the world --
Encounter with the West --
An island in the middle of the ocean --
A people of artists --
The sages of the 21st century.
Responsibility: Carlos Mordo.
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