Presentation

Hello everyone! My name's Carolina Ossandón and today I'm going to talk about "Polynesia", something very related to my career which is Antropología, because it is about culture.

I have chosen this topic because when we talk about polinenses's cultures everything seems spectacular front our eyes, like if we were talking about a different world, something just in our imaginations but they actually exist. And also because I did love Vaiana's Movie (Moana in Spanish) and the clasic movie Lilo & Stich.

I'd like to divide my presentation into 2 parts. Firstly i will refer about what does it mean "polynesia" and why i think its important for anthropology. Secondly i'm going to show our most near example about it in Chile: Isla de Pascua.

We called Polynesia to the geopolitic way to refer of several islands distribuited over the Pacific Ocean. The name in Greek are "poli- nesos", wich means "many islands", so it's make sense. There are also exist Melanesia and Micronesia, other names for islands groups.

Paul Rivert is a french etnologist, who made the Oceanic Theory of American Settlement.