https://www.eisp.org Easter Island Statue Project Official Website Sat, 24 Feb 2024 04:01:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 https://www.eisp.org/6431/ https://www.eisp.org/6431/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2022 22:10:18 +0000 https://www.eisp.org/?p=6431 Objects have many stories to tell. The stories of their makers and their uses. Stories of exchange, acquisition, display and interpretation. This book is a collection of essays highlighting some of the collections, and their object biographies, that were displayed in the Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania (UPP) exhibition. The exhibition, which […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/6431/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/1853/ https://www.eisp.org/1853/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 06:30:06 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=1853 Katherine Routledge (1866-1935), Alfred Métraux (1906-1963) and Juan Tepano (c.1867-1947) This is a condensed and edited version of an unpublished paper given in the invited Presidential Session “The Ethnographer’s Discipline:  Alfred Métraux (1902-1963) in his Centenary” at the American Anthropological Association’s Centennial Meeting, New Orleans, 2002.  It was further edited for and presented at a […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/1853/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/1822/ https://www.eisp.org/1822/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 05:11:38 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=1822 A paper given by Jo Anne Van Tilburg in the Civilized Living Series at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Estate and Garden, Lenox, Mass., September 1, 2005. There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton1 Introduction Edith Wharton, distinguished American author and philanthropist, was born […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/1822/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/818/ https://www.eisp.org/818/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 19:07:18 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=818 This is an edited excerpt from a presentation entitled “Sex, Lies and Fieldnotes: A Skeptic on Easter Island” given at The Skeptic Society, Cal Tech, Pasadena, 2003 Katherine Routledge was the first woman archaeologist to work in Polynesia. Attracted by the international mystery of Easter Island’s giant stone statues, she and her husband William Scoresby […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/818/feed/ 0