Sustainable Visit to Rapa Nui: Global Perspectives

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This is an abstract from the "Social Archaeologies and Islands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In this paper, I present some research results deriving from a collaborative and interdisciplinary research project called Sustainable Visits in Rapa Nui - Global perspectives. The use of visits refers to tourism, colonization and migrations in the long term perspective, visits with colonial connotations, and research visits and Rapanui migrations, all of which have affected the society in social, economic and ecological ways. The aim of the project is to explore the island from the perspective of island communities and on the terms of the islanders, the Rapanui. I use a lens of globality and problematize such concepts as remoteness, vulnerability, resilience, and survival to understand the effects of these visits. The aim is to learn something from the past to suggest regenerative actions to create social, economic, and ecological sustainable paths forward for this small island in a vast sea. Especially subsequent to European contact time, external interactions, slave raids, introduced diseases and ethnographic, anthropological, and archaeological research placed the island in a global mindset that affected the local life. In this paper, I especially focus on presenting the results from interview projects on tourism, cultural heritage, and repatriation.

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• Social Archaeologies and Islands   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38739.0