TAILIEUCHUNG - Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume 2 - Oceania - R

Bách khoa toàn thư nền nông nghiệp thế giới - Châu Úc - Vần R | Rapa 273 a foreign land. Treatment involved communication through a seer with one or more gods who would indicate the cause and treatment for the malady. Pukapukans had and still practice a number of folk remedies and physical therapy techniques most prominent being deep-pressure massage. Death and Afterlife. Today Pukapukans mostly follow Christian doctrine regarding life after death though as noted a belief in ghosts also exists. Prior to missionization the Beagleholes report a belief existed that a person died when the soul permanently left the individual s body. The soul then journeyed to the underworld po where it took up residence enjoying various pleasures denied it in the upper world. See also Cook Islands Manihild Bibliography Beaglehole Ernest and Pearl Beaglehole 1938 . Ethnology of Pukapuka. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin no. 150. Honolulu. Borofsky Robert 1987 . Making History Pukapukan and Anthropological Constructions of Knowledge. Cambridge Cambridge University Press. Frisbie Robert 1930 . The Book of Pukapuka. New York Century. Hecht Julia 1977 . The Culture of Gender in Pukapuka Male Female and the Mayakitanga Sacred Maid. Journal of the Polynesian Society 86 183-206. Hecht Julia 1981 . The Cultural Context of Siblingship in Pukapuka. In Siblingship in Oceania edited by Mac Marshall 53-77. Landham Md. University Press of America. ROBERT BOROFSKY Rapa ETHNONYMS Austral Islands Oparo Rapa-Iti Tubuai Archipelago Orientation Identification. Rapa is the southernmost island in the Austral Archipelago. Its name is often given as Rapa-Iti Little Rapa to distinguish it from the distant Easter Island which is commonly known as Rapa-Nui Big Rapa . On Rapa itself however Rapa-Iti refers to a small islet off the east coast of the main island. Early European visitors frequently identified the island as Oparo but the source of that name is not clear. Location. The Austral Islands occasionally known also as the Tubuai Archipelago straddle the Tropic of .

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