Steven Roger Fischer. Rongorongo: The Easter Island script: History, traditions, text [Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics, 14]. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xiv, 714 pp. Hb. $90.00

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Steven Roger Fischer. Rongorongo: The Easter Island script: History, traditions, text [Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics, 14]. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xiv, 714 pp. Hb. $90.00

Cited by three other publications

Steven Roger Fischer. Rongorongo: The Easter Island script: History, traditions, text [Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics, 14]. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xiv, 714 pp. Hb. $90.00