German-Rapanui Entanglements
Editat de Cristián Moreno Pakarati, Diego Muñozen Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 aug 2026
Groundbreaking material-visual history and ethnography of German-Rapanui entanglements.
This book traces German-Rapanui entanglements from past to present through encounters between scholars, missionaries, institutions and Indigenous actors, and through the material and visual traces-objects, photographs, and texts-that continue to shape knowledge and memory of Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Moving beyond limiting Eurocentric frames, it highlights how Rapanui people have actively engaged with German and German-speaking individuals and institutions to (re)shape different practices and discourses of 'Rapanuiness'.
The chapters bring these dynamics to life: from Bavarian Capuchin activities that reached far beyond conversion, to collecting and exhibiting networks linking Altötting in Bavaria to Rapa Nui; from German efforts to record oral traditions and the 1957 German-Chilean expedition, to long-term archaeological collaborations at Ava Ranga Uka A Toroke Hau.
Written by scholars based in Rapa Nui, Germany, Chile, France, and the United States, the volume shows how Rapanui communities have shifted from being marginalised in the management of their heritage to becoming key agents in its interpretation and future. Together, these studies illuminate three centuries of entanglement-and their powerful resonance today.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 9462705267
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Leuven University Press
Notă biografică
Cristián Moreno Pakarati is a historian, independent researcher and founder of Rapanui Pioneers Society in Hanga Roa, Rapa Nui.
Diego Muñoz is a social anthropologist and affiliated researcher at the Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie (CREDO-UMR 7308, AMU-CNRS-EHESS), France. He was postdoctoral researcher (2020-2024) in the ERC project 'IndiGen' at LMU Munich, Germany.
Philipp Schorch is Professor of Museum Anthropology at LMU Munich, Germany, and an Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, UK.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Cristián Moreno Pakarati, Diego Muñoz and Philipp Schorch
Chapter 1. Framing German-Chilean entanglements with Rapa Nui
H. Glenn Penny
Chapter 2. More than conversion : The Bavarian Capuchins and their scientific activities among the Mapuche and Rapanui peoples in Chile
Markus A. Scholz
Chapter 3. Altötting and Rapa Nui : Capuchin and Indigenous collecting, curating and exhibiting
Diego Muñoz and Philipp Schorch
Chapter 4. Rapanui lore as a vehicle to reconstruct local history : The Germanic collecting of oral traditions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Cristián Moreno Pakarati
Chapter 5. Co-construction of knowledge : Thomas Barthel and Rapanui interlocutors in the field
Andrea Seelenfreund and Théo Milin
Chapter 6. Archaeology, community outreach and transforming perspectives : Seventeen years of German-Rapanui collaboration at Ava Ranga Uka A Toroke Hau
Annette Kühlem
Afterword 1. The ambiguity of entanglements : Germans and Chilean colonialisms on Rapa Nui
Rolf Foerster
Afterword 2. Living entanglements
Noah Paoa Kannegiesser
Contributors