Book Details
Title: Home in the Islands; Housing and Social Change in the Pacific
Author: Jan Rensel and Margaret Rodman (Editors)
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Year: 1997
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 264
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 0-8248-1934-9
Battle Scars:
Overall good condition.
Outside:
The cover is intact. There is some minor shelf wear to edges/ends/corners, with rubbing, and a little curling to corners. Minor scuffing.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean apart from a couple of smudges/marks.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact. There is one name inscribed in ink on the front-end page as photographed.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"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.
'Home in the Islands' addresses changes in housing in the Pacific, considers how these changes came about, and explores their consequences. Architecture intersects with critical anthropology and geography as contributors examine how social, political, religious, economic, demographic , and environmental influences converge in the nexus of housing. Building on recent interdisciplinary literature, the essays explore the meanings that are spatially negotiated as Pacific Islanders build and dwell in places that have always been home, are homes away from home, and are homelands without homes.
Although detailed written and photographic documentation is not available for most case studies of housing in the Pacific, the stories are there for those who learn to read the evidence. They 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."
Book Details
Title: Home in the Islands; Housing and Social Change in the Pacific
Author: Jan Rensel and Margaret Rodman (Editors)
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Year: 1997
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 264
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 0-8248-1934-9
Battle Scars:
Overall good condition.
Outside:
The cover is intact. There is some minor shelf wear to edges/ends/corners, with rubbing, and a little curling to corners. Minor scuffing.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean apart from a couple of smudges/marks.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact. There is one name inscribed in ink on the front-end page as photographed.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"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.
'Home in the Islands' addresses changes in housing in the Pacific, considers how these changes came about, and explores their consequences. Architecture intersects with critical anthropology and geography as contributors examine how social, political, religious, economic, demographic , and environmental influences converge in the nexus of housing. Building on recent interdisciplinary literature, the essays explore the meanings that are spatially negotiated as Pacific Islanders build and dwell in places that have always been home, are homes away from home, and are homelands without homes.
Although detailed written and photographic documentation is not available for most case studies of housing in the Pacific, the stories are there for those who learn to read the evidence. They 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."
