Houses Far From Home : British Colonial Space in the New Hebrides / Margaret Rodman Critchlow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodman Critchlow, Margaret, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British--Dwellings--Vanuatu.

British.

Colonial administrators--Housing--Vanuatu.

Colonial administrators.

Dwellings--Social aspects--Vanuatu.

Dwellings.

Vanuatu.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2001]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The houses far from home featured in this book are located in Vanuatu, a chain of islands between Fiji and Australia in the southwest Pacific. Once known as the Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides, the islands were jointly administered by the British and French from 1906 to 1980. In this innovative and revealing study of a unique colonial project, Margaret Rodman tells the stories of these houses, exploring the profound differences of perspective, experience, and power that domestic spaces reveal and offering a novel look at the history of British colonialism in the Pacific. Each chapter has at its heart a house where readers can explore dimensions of race, gender, and power that domestic spaces reveal. Moving across time, between different islands and actors, between oral memories and archival documents, Margaret Rodman provides a richly documented "multi-sited ethnography" of the social history of the New Hebrides.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. House of Bamboo

Chapter 2. The Condominium

Chapter 3. The British Residency

Chapter 4. Prisoners in Grass Houses

Chapter 5. The White House and the British Paddock

Chapter 6. The Tanna House

Chapter 7. On Islands off Islands

Chapter 8. Houses Far From Home

Notes

References Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780824841645

0824841646

OCLC:

1013948962