The C.E.I.P.P., or the ''Centre ''(formerly ''Cercle'')'' d'Etudes sur l'île de Pâques et la Polynésie'' ("Study Centre (formerly "Circle") on Easter Island and Polynesia") is a geographic and anthropological group created by André Valenta and Michel-Alain Jumeau. The CEIPP is notable for its members' publications on

Easter Island Easter Island (, ; , ) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. The island is renowned for its nearly 1,000 extant monumental statues, ...

. These include: *''Nouveau Regard sur l'île de Pâques,'' a collective work published by Moana Editions, Saintry-sur-Seine, 1982 *''Les Mystères Résolus de l'île de Pâques,'' a collective work published by Editions Step, Évry, 1993. *Michel-Alain Jumeau and Yves Pioger's ''Bibliographie de l'île de Pâques.'' Publications de la

Société des Océanistes The ('Society of Oceanicists') is a French scientific society, founded in 1936, that brings together specialists and interdisciplinary scholars of the cultures and societies of Oceania. It was originally located at the in Paris, but moved to t ...

, nº46, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, 1997. . The CEIPP also houses the

Thomas Barthel Thomas Sylvester Barthel (4 January 1923 – 3 April 1997) was a German ethnologist and epigrapher who is best known for cataloguing the undeciphered rongorongo script of Easter Island. Life and career Barthel was born on 4 January 1923, in Berl ...

archives of

rongorongo Rongorongo ( or ; Rapa Nui: ) is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island that has the appearance of writing or proto-writing. Numerous attempts at decipherment have been made, but none have been successful. Although ...

, making the data available in digitized format, cross-checking his line drawings of the rongorongo corpus with available photographs and the rubbings he used, and expanding his list of glyphs and his glyph-referencing system. They publish the ''Bulletin du Centre d'études sur l'île de Pâques et la Polynésie''.

External links

CEIPP website
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