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Hardcover. Zustand: New. 471 pp., illustrations, maps, bibliography. Since the 18th century Rapa Nui or Easter Island, as it was baptised by early European visitors, attracted many naturalists, archaeologists and anthropologists. It was only in 1984 when a series of international conferences on 'Easter Island and the Pacific' was established. Three institutions, the German Archaeological Institute, the Christian Albrechts-University Kiel, and the HafenCity University Hamburg, united under the umbrella of the German Archaeological Expedition, organized the 9th International Conference in this series in the Ethnological Museum Berlin, Germany, which was held in June 2015. Researchers from 20 different countries presented their contributions of which 39 have been included in the publication. Their topics vary from archaeology, anthropology, history, linguistics, land-use and ecology, and a heritage management to sociology. The papers cover the period from pre-contact to our times, with an emphasis on insular environments and resources across almost the entire Pacific.