The Earliest Foreign Visitors and Their Massive Depopulation of Rapa-iti from 1824 to 1830
The first foreign visitors to Rapa-iti introduced new technologies and new ideas, but they also introduced foreign diseases and alcohol. Within the six years from 1824 to 1830, over three quarters of the population died. The extinction of the remainder was only narrowly averted. Nevertheless suffici...
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Journal de la société des océanistes
2007
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | The first foreign visitors to Rapa-iti introduced new technologies and new ideas, but they also introduced foreign diseases and alcohol. Within the six years from 1824 to 1830, over three quarters of the population died. The extinction of the remainder was only narrowly averted. Nevertheless sufficient of the Rapa-iti language survived to indicate that it was unlike the languages of the Austral Islands and Tahiti. |
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