 | Houses Far From Home: British Colonial Space in the New Hebrides Subjects: British -- Dwellings -- Vanuatu; Dwellings -- Social aspects -- Vanuatu; Colonial administrators -- Housing -- Vanuatu; Vanuatu; 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. Rodman Critchlow Margaret : Margaret Rodman Critchlow is professor of anthropology at York University, Toronto. |
