From Republican Professor to Ethnographer-Professor on Easter Island in the Mid-20th Century. Socio-Anthropological Reading of Lorenzo Baeza’s notes

Abstract

From Lorenzo Baeza’s notes, one of the first professional teachers appointed at Easter Island`s school, an ethnographic reading of passages of these is done, placing the author in the biographical and ideological aspects that condition him as an observer and as object of observation in the island society in the mid-20th century. An analysis of how power structures were organized in the territory is done, especially around the island’s school, revealing the forms of symbolic and physical violence that are exercised and transferred to other local agents.