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Article: Religion and Language of Easter Island. An Ethnolinguistic Analysis of Religious Key Words of Rapa Nui in Their Austronesian Context.
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- Oceania
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- March 1, 1998
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This volume appears in a series devoted to 'ethnology' which as used in Britain, and for a time in the USA, sets itself the task of reconstructing cultures from the past. Others in the same series look at African histories, Bolivian archaeology (3 numbers), American Indian portraiture, African puppets, traditional musical instruments and medicinal herbs in Polynesia.
Cain claims a working knowledge of Samoan, Fijian and Bahasa amongst others as a basis for offering his comparative speculations on the true meanings of the Rapanui words he studies. Although two names appear as authors, even Cain's name being second, there is no doubt that it is Cain, not Bierbach, who ...