/2005/07/30/easter-island-and-its-mysteries/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 /2005/07/30/easter-island-and-its-mysteries/comment-page-1/#comment-1012 Sat, 30 Jul 2005 17:35:56 +0000 /?p=161#comment-1012 Not only does the translation include footnotes by the translator but it also includes copious notes by the Editor, Shawn McLaughlin, the erudite author of “The Complete Guide to Easter Island,” which was published recently by the Easter Island Foundation (www.islandheritage.org).
Shawn’s notes bring Stéphen-Chauvet’s text into the 21st century by correcting many of the author’s misconceptions. The translated text provides an excellent introduction to the mindset of ethnographers in the mid 1930’s. However, Shawn’s notes are an essential antidote to much that is dated or just plain wrong in the original text.

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