The Polynesian peoples descend from the creators of the Lapita culture, a group that established itself across a vast oceanic region from Papua New Guinea to Samoa between 3,800 and 3,000 years ago. From that nucleus, their descendants carried out the greatest maritime expansion in human history, colonising the Pacific
The rebirth of ancestral medicine The Rapanui community of today is in the process of reclaiming many different aspects of their social and political life. One of them is the rebirth of ancestral medicine. Currently on the Island is an old field hospital, built in the 1970s, which was originally
Nga Rongoa Ancestral Medicine on Rapa Nui Within the philosophical world view of the Rapanui, good health is based on the union of man and nature, between life and death, in the present, the past and the future. Any mishap or disease has its origin in supernatural forces and is in
Mokomae is the name of an ancestral warrior of the Ure tribe, who inhabited the Poike region in ancient times. Today that name resonates through Tito Hormazábal Araki, a Rapanui tattoo artist who has chosen to carry that name as his own identity, connecting his present with the history of
The Society of Friends of Easter Island by Roberto Rojas P. – Antropólogo / Anthropologist The anthropologist and investigator Rolf Foerster, who was a professor of the University of Chile, has dedicated his research and writing to the native communities of La Araucania and the Mapuche peoples, as well as
