An Introduction to Polynesian Anthropology

Literature on Easter Island

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Literature on Easter Island

Early Voyagers (see chronological list, pp. 66-75)

  • Beechey (1825-1828)
  • Behrens (1721-1722)
  • Chamisso (1815-1818)
  • Choris (1815-1818)
  • Cook (1772-1775)
  • Du Petit-Thouars (1836-1839)
  • Gonzalez (1770-1771)
  • Kotzebue (1815-1818)
  • Langsdorff (1803-1806)
  • La Pérouse (1785-1788)
  • Lisiansky (1803-1806)
  • Moerenhout (1828-1834)
  • Roggeveen (1721-1722)
Other Writers

Churchill, William, Easter Island: the Rapanui speech and the peopling of southeast Polynesia, Washington, 1912.

Eyraud, F. E., Lettre du F. Eugène Eyraud au T. R. P. Supérieur général: Annales de la propagation de la foi, vol. 38, pp. 52-71, 124-138, Lyon, 1866; vol. 39, pp. 250-259, Lyon, 1866-1867.

Geiseler (Kaptänlieutenant), Die Öster-Insel, Berlin, 1883.

Jaussen, Tepano, L'Iie de Pâques: historique et écriture: Bull. de Geogr. Hist, et Descriptive, no. 2, pp. 240-270, Paris, 1893.

Lavachery, Henri, Iie de Pâques, Paris, 1935.

Lavachery, Henri, Les pétroglyphes de l'Ile de Pâques, Parties 1-2, Anvers, 1939.

Loti, Pierre (Julian Viaud), Reflets sur la sombre route, Paris (n.d.).

Olivier, Pacôme, Lettres du R. P. Pacôme Olivier … au T. R. P. Supérieur général: Annales de la propagation de la foi, vol. 38, pp. 45-52, Lyon, 1866; vol. 39, pp. 250-259, Lyon, 1867.

Palmer, J. Linton, A visit to Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, in 1868: Roy. Geogr. Soc., Jour., vol. 40, pp. 167-181, London, 1870.

Roussel, Hippolyte, Vocabulaire de la langue de l'lle de Pâques ou Rapa nui: Le Muséon, nos. 2-3, pp. 159-254, Louvain, 1908.

Roussel, Hippolyte, Iie de Pâques: Ann. des Sacrés Coeurs, nos. 305-309, pp. 355-360, 423-430, 462-466, 495-499, Paris, 1926.

Routledge, C. S., The mystery of Easter Island, London, 1919.

Thomson, W. J., Te Pito te Henua or Easter Island: U. S. Nat. Mus. Ann. Rept., pp. 447-552, 1889.

Zumbohm, Gaspard, Lettres du R. P. … au Directeur des Annales sur la mission de l'Iie Pâques: Ann. des Sacrés Coeurs, vols. 5-6, Paris, 1879-1880.

Bishop Museum Publications

Drapkin, I., Contribution to a demographic study of Easter Island, Occ. Papers, vol. 11, no. 12, 1935.

Métraux, Alfred, Ethnology of Easter Island, Bull. 160, 1940.

Shapiro, H. L., The physical relationships of the Easter Islanders, Bull. 160, pp. 24-30, 1940.

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