Heritage Voices
Heritage Voices
The Archaeology Podcast Network
Rapa Nui - Ep 91
1 hour 2 minutes Posted Oct 15, 2024 at 8:00 am.
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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 [https://www.archpodnet.com/heritagevoices]
* Eating up Easter  [https://itvs.org/films/eating-up-easter/]
* Eating up Easter on PBS (Amazon) [https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B08DCJ6KFJ/ref=atv_hm_wat_c_7de9kC_1_30]
* Eating up Easter (PBS) [https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/eating-up-easter/]
* British museum public access catalogue [https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/collection-online/guide]
* Moai: Contest Objects from the British Museum Collection [https://www.britishmuseum.org/about-us/british-museum-story/contested-objects-collection/moai]
* Article about British Museum Employee who Stole Artifacts from Collection [https://apnews.com/article/british-museum-stolen-artifacts-ae178b225ecf2378766d22209194ecb7#:~:text=LONDON%20(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20The%20British,were%20discovered%20to%20be%20missing.]
* Another film made by another Rapanui documentary filmmaker, Leo Pakarati, about Hoa Haka Nana Ia. [https://www.piccom.org/programs/te-kuhane-o-te-tupuna-1]
* Smithsonian Moai [http://www.eisp.org/1441/]
* Stone Figure Head and Shoulders [https://www.si.edu/object/stone-figure-head-and-shoulders%3Anmnhanthropology_8334981]
* Smithsonian to return ancestral remains to Indigenous Australians [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PNFc2YYrLg]
* https://www.instagram.com/smrapu/
* https://linktr.ee/smrapu
Contact
* Jessica
[email protected]
@livingheritageA
[http://www.twitter.com/livingheritageA]@LivingHeritageResearchCouncil [http://www.twitter.com/LivingHeritageResearchCouncil]
ArchPodNet
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Affiliates
* Motion [https://www.archpodnet.com/motion]