Between "Easter Island" and "Rapa Nui". The making and the unmaking of an uncanny lifeworld. Seward, P. Berkeley Undergraduate Journal, 27(2):1–64, 2014. abstract bibtex This thesis is a historically informed ethnography of the Rapanui people of Easter Island. The restoration of this dispossessed and ravaged island by outsiders into what some scholars call “Museum Island” is the historical background on which the thesis is set. I argue that this postcolonial process has produced in the Rapanui an uncanny affect when re-encountering their landscape and the emplaced persons within. I discuss the ontological, historical, and contemporary aspects of the case on the basis of ethnographic data I collected and archival research I conducted in Easter Island in the summer of 2013 and January 2014. In the first part, I use a semiotic approach to analyze how various Rapanui performance genres reveal Easter Island to be a landscape alive with emplaced other-than-human persons. In the second part, I examine the mediatization and politi-cal use of a leprosy epidemic from the 1890s to the 1960s in the island by the Chilean nation-state, focusing on how a new apparatus of power made autonomous citizens of Rapanui dividual persons. Meanwhile, outsiders restored the island’s archaeological sites for the development of a tourism industry, in effect reproducing the Rapanui lifeworld at the same time that the Chilean nation-state destroyed the conditions of this lifeworld as a sacred indigenous place. In the third, final part, I in-quire into how Rapanui people of today unmake what is now an uncanny lifeworld by rekindling, in performance, relations with abandoned ancestors. The thesis concludes with a discussion of a collaborative project in 2014-2015 that attempts to regenerate dominated forms and modes of be-ing in Rapa Nui.
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