Fragments of History. Prodedures of a Return: From Waitangi to the ?Te Papa Tongarewa?. What I have seen and known...

RICARDO CICERCHIA

Isla de Pascua

Conferencia; 10th International Conference Early Pacific Migration; 2018

New Zealand is a group of islands in the South Pacific. Its first population probably dates back to a few thousand years, when the ancestors of the Maori community arrived from the Polynesian tropics. Between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries the imbalance produced by demographic growth organized the territory and the forms of power. Some communities migrate, others disappear, most resort to war. Tribes secure local resources by moving the borders of domination and hegemony. Alliances are guaranteed with weddings, gifts, rituals. The time of tribal power is a fundamental part of Maori history and traditions. A warrior ethos that unfolds in scale, controlling its intensity, less fatal than symbolic.