Rongorongo: the Easter Island Script History, Traditions, Text

Name: Rongorongo: the Easter Island Script History, Traditions, Text
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ISBN: 9780198237105

ISBN-10: 0198237103

ISBN-13: 9780198237105

Edition: 1997

Authors: Steven Roger Fischer

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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 Pre-missionary traditions surrounding rongorongo are described from previously unpublished material.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…

Book details

List price: $490.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/5/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 734
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.69" tall
Weight: 3.036
Language: English



Preface



History



Traditions



Texts


Conclusion


Notes


Glossary


References


Index