Houses Far from Home: British Colonial Space in the New Hebrides - Softcover

Rodman, Margaret Critchlow

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082482394X ISBN 13: 9780824823948

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, 2001

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"Rodman makes an innovative attempt to reach behind the public mask of colonial authority."

Synopsis:

The "houses far from home" in this work are located in Vanuatu, a chain of islands between Fiji and Australia, which were jointly administered by the British and French from 1906 to 1980. This work tells the stories of these houses.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 082482394X
• ISBN 13: 9780824823948
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264