Rongorongo - The Easter Island Script: History, Traditions, Text

Zusatztext Fischer now has complete! readable texts in an ancient form of Greek. Fischer's most valuable contribution is a detailed history of research on Rongoronga ... and a full catalogue of all known Rongorongo inscriptions. These alone will make this book a must! not only for Polynesian specialists! but for all those interested in non-European scripts. Zusammenfassung Documents Easter Island's enigmatic script, Rongorongo, Oceania's only known pre-20th-century writing system. This study of this eloquent graphic achievement shows full transcriptions of all the 25 surviving Rongorongo inscriptions, with detailed photographs of nearly all the incised artefacts.

Product details

• Authors: Steven R. Fischer, Steven Roger Fischer, Steven Roger (Director Fischer, Fischer Steven Roger
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.12.1997
• EAN: 9780198237105
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823710-5
• No. of pages: 736
• Series: Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems, Easter Island, Palaeography (History Of Writing), Palaeography