Rapa Nui - Ep 91
On today’s episode, Jessica talks with Friar Francisco Nahoe and Mata'u Rapu about how a priest and a filmmaker got involved in repatriation efforts for Rapa Nui (Easter Island). We learn how 19th and 20th Century European sheepherding ventures circulated Polynesian crania from Rapa Nui across the world; how UNESCO recognition can harm indigenous communities; the close relationship between environmental protection, cultural heritage, and indigenous rights; and most of all how the Rapanui people themselves provide an outstanding example of resilience in the face of environmental precarity and Euro-American colonization. Finally, we explore the challenges of living up to the leadership and legacy of both ancient ancestors and living elders in the effort to find a collective, multi-generational Polynesian voice.
Transcripts
• For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/heritagevo...
• Heritage Voices on the APN (https://www.archpodnet.com/heritagevo...)
• Eating up Easter (https://itvs.org/films/eating-up-easter/)
• Eating up Easter on PBS (Amazon) (https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detai...)
• Eating up Easter (PBS) (https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/d...)
• British museum public access catalogue (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collect...)
• Moai: Contest Objects from the British Museum Collection (https://www.britishmuseum.org/about-u...)
• Article about British Museum Employee who Stole Artifacts from Collection (https://apnews.com/article/british-mu...)
• Another film made by another Rapanui documentary filmmaker, Leo Pakarati, about Hoa Haka Nana Ia. (https://www.piccom.org/programs/te-ku...)
• Smithsonian Moai (http://www.eisp.org/1441/)
• Stone Figure Head and Shoulders (https://www.si.edu/object/stone-figur...)
• Smithsonian to return ancestral remains to Indigenous Australians ( • Smithsonian to return ancestral remains to... )
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