• Rapa Nui - Ep 91

  • Oct 15 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • On today’s episode, Jessica talks with Friar Francisco Nahoe and Mata'u Rapu about how a priest and a filmmaker got involved in repatriation efforts for Rapa Nui (Easter Island). We learn how 19th and 20th Century European sheepherding ventures circulated Polynesian crania from Rapa Nui across the world; how UNESCO recognition can harm indigenous communities; the close relationship between environmental protection, cultural heritage, and indigenous rights; and most of all how the Rapanui people themselves provide an outstanding example of resilience in the face of environmental precarity and Euro-American colonization. Finally, we explore the challenges of living up to the leadership and legacy of both ancient ancestors and living elders in the effort to find a collective, multi-generational Polynesian voice.

    Transcripts
    • For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/heritagevoices/91
    Links
    • Heritage Voices on the APN
    • Eating up Easter
    • Eating up Easter on PBS (Amazon)
    • Eating up Easter (PBS)
    • British museum public access catalogue
    • Moai: Contest Objects from the British Museum Collection
    • Article about British Museum Employee who Stole Artifacts from Collection
    • Another film made by another Rapanui documentary filmmaker, Leo Pakarati, about Hoa Haka Nana Ia.
    • Smithsonian Moai
    • Stone Figure Head and Shoulders
    • Smithsonian to return ancestral remains to Indigenous Australians
    • https://www.instagram.com/smrapu/
    • https://linktr.ee/smrapu
    Contact
    • Jessica
      Jessica@livingheritageanthropology.org
      @livingheritageA
      @LivingHeritageResearchCouncil
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