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

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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 space...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chowning, Ann (Contribuidor), Dominy, Michèle (Contribuidor), Flinn, Juliana (Contribuidor), Franco, Robert (Contribuidor), Macpherson, Cluny (Contribuidor), Mageo Aga, Simeamativa (Contribuidor), Modell, Judith (Contribuidor), Rensel, Jan (Contribuidor, Editor ), Rodman Critchlow, Margaret (Editor ), Rodman, Margaret (Contribuidor), Shaw, R. Daniel (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [1997]
Temas:
Housing > Pacific Area > Case studies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • 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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