Inventing 'Easter Island'

✍ Scribed by Beverley Haun

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 354
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Te Pito O Te Henua: An Introduction
2. Forces at Play
3. The Dutch
4. The Spanish
5. The British
6. The French
7. Cultural Imaginary to Cultural Memory
8. An Educational Supplement: Pedagogy and Remembrance
Appendix A: The Anonymous Sailor
Appendix B: Postcolonial Immersion
Notes
Bibliography
Index