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

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ISBN-13: 9780824816827
Published: September 1997
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ISBN-13: 9780824819347
Published: September 1997

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  • About the Book
  • Ordinary houses have extraordinary stories to tell.

    For more than a century, anthropologists have been recording these sagas in an attempt to uncover humanity's relationship with the common dwelling. Fundamental to the interaction of humans and housing is the way people shape their living spaces, even redefining their purposes and meanings; their houses, in turn, influence how people live their lives and perpetuate the cultural structures that produced a given form of shelter.

    The stories draw attention to colonial and missionary agendas, local and global economies, environmental disasters, cultural identities, social connections, and family continuity, as well as personal choices. And, as the chapter on homeless Hawaiians shows, even those without houses have stories to tell.

    Anthropologists, architects, environmental designers, geographers, and historians will welcome this diverse volume on a neglected yet important aspect of change in the lives of Pacific Islanders.

  • About the Author(s)
    • Jan Rensel, Editor

    • Margaret Rodman Critchlow, Editor

      Margaret Rodman Critchlow is professor of anthropology at York University, Toronto.
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