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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Rodman Critchlow, Margaret,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

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.

Table of 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