Home in the Islands

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

Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Architectural and Urban Studies · Architecture and Cultural Influences · History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

• Pacific Climate Cultures

  Open Access•Tom Crook, Tony Crook et al.•Pacific Climate Cultures•2018

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• The living house

  Roxana Waterson•The living house•1990

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• Colonialism's Culture

  Michael Adas, Nicholas Thomas•The American Historical Review•1996

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• Common Places

  Martin C Perdue, Dell Upton et al.•Journal of American Folklore•1988

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• Masks and Men in a Melanesian Society, the Valuku or Tubuan of the Lakalai of New Britain

  Daniel J Crowley, Charles A Valentine•Journal of American Folklore•1963

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• The Empty Place

  Eric Hirsch, James F Weiner•Man•1993

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• Society as Organized Flow

  J Watson, James B Watson•Southwestern Journal of…•1970

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