Rongorongo : The Easter Island Script: History, Traditions, Text
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Format
Hardback
Book Series
Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
ISBN-10
0198237103
ISBN-13
9780198237105
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 11th, 1997
Print length
736 Pages
Weight
1,200 grams
Dimensions
16.50 x 24.40 x 4.90 cms
Product Classification:
Easter IslandPalaeographyPalaeography (history of writing)
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Documents Easter Island's enigmatic script, Rongorongo, Oceania's only known pre-20th-century writing system. This study of this eloquent graphic achievement shows full transcriptions of all the 25 surviving Rongorongo inscriptions, with detailed photographs of nearly all the incised artefacts.
Rongorongo, Easter Island''s enigmatic script and Oceania''s only known pre-twentieth-century writing system, is here comprehensively documented for the first time. The author tells the full history of rongorongo''s exciting discovery and the many attempts at a decipherment. Pre-missionary traditions surrounding rongorongo are described from previously unpublished material. Full transcriptions of all the 25 surviving rongorongo inscriptions are provided, along with detailed photographs of nearly every incised artefact. In over six years of full-time research that took the author from St Petersburg to Easter Island, a wholly new picture of the rongorongo phenomenon has emerged. This book is the definitive study of one of the world''s most fascinating and eloquent graphic achievements.
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