Rongorongo - The Easter Island Script: History, Traditions, Text (Hardcover)


Easter Island's rongorongo script is Oceania's only known writing system predating the 20th century. The author documents comprehensively, for the first time, the history, traditions, and texts of this enigmatic script. His research has taken him all over the world, from St Petersburg to Easter Island itself, to uncover the truth behind one of the world's most fascinating and eloquent graphic achievements.

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Easter Island's rongorongo script is Oceania's only known writing system predating the 20th century. The author documents comprehensively, for the first time, the history, traditions, and texts of this enigmatic script. His research has taken him all over the world, from St Petersburg to Easter Island itself, to uncover the truth behind one of the world's most fascinating and eloquent graphic achievements.

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Product Details

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Imprint

Clarendon Press

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Series

Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 14

Release date

December 1997

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Expected to ship within 9 - 15 working days

Authors

Dimensions

243 x 167 x 43mm (L x W x T)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

736

ISBN-13

978-0-19-823710-5

Barcode

9780198237105

Categories

LSN

0-19-823710-3



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