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Memory and monumentality in the Rarotongan landscape

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Matthew Campbell
Matthew Campbell*
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Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland, New Zealand (Email: mat.c@cfgheritage.com)
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Extract

One way to understand how a landscape captures memories is to study places where documents have also preserved them. The author does this to remarkable effect in the island of Rarotonga, showing how the great road Ara Metua and its monuments and land boundaries were structured and restructured through time to reflect what was to be remembered. Students of the pre- and proto-histories of all continents will find much inspiration in the pages that follow.

Keywords

Polynesiamonumentalitymemorylandscape
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Research
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Antiquity , Volume 80 , Issue 307 , 1 March 2006 , pp. 102 - 117
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2006

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