Home in the Islands: Housing and Social Change in the Pacific 9780824862862

Ordinary houses have extraordinary stories to tell. For more than a century, anthropologists have been recording thes

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English Pages 240 [272] Year 1997

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Jan Rensel (editor)
Margaret Rodman Critchlow (editor)

Table of contents :
Contents
Prologue. Margaret Rodman
1. Introduction
2. From Thatch to Cement: Social Implications of Housing Change on Rotuma
3. Samo House Styles and Social Change
4. Changes in Housing and Residence Patterns in Galilo, New Britain, 1918–1992
5. Transformations in the Domestic Landscape of New Zealand Homesteads
6. Private Houses, Public Sharing: Pollapese Migrants Coping with Change
7. A Samoan Solution to the Limitations of Urban Housing in New Zealand
8. From Houses without Walls to Vertical Villages: Samoan Housing Transformations
9. (Not) In My Back Yard Housing the Homeless in Hawai‘i
10. Conclusion
References
Contributors
Index

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