By Jan Rensel, Margaret Rodman Critchlow
Ordinary homes have awesome tales to tell.
For greater than a century, anthropologists were recording those sagas in an try to discover humanity's courting with the typical residing. basic to the interplay of people and housing is the best way humans form their dwelling areas, even redefining their reasons and meanings; their homes, in flip, impression how humans reside their lives and perpetuate the cultural constructions that produced a given kind of shelter.
The tales draw recognition to colonial and missionary agendas, neighborhood and international economies, environmental failures, cultural identities, social connections, and family members continuity, in addition to own offerings. And, because the bankruptcy on homeless Hawaiians exhibits, even these with no homes have tales to tell.
Anthropologists, architects, environmental designers, geographers, and historians will welcome this various quantity on a missed but vital element of switch within the lives of Pacific Islanders.
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This facilitated the Rotuman custom of assisting others with cooking in koua ‘earth ovens’ as well as that of sharing meals. Young unmarried men ordinarily slept away from their parents and siblings. It was considered improper for them to sleep inside the house, in close proximity to their sisters. kit). By staying together, as well as by participating in other joint activities such as preparing koua and gardening, youths strengthened not only their relationships with each other but ties between their respective households.
Even more difficult are disputes over land claims in which someone else attempts to force a household to leave. Bad feelings are exacerbated by the specter of losing not only the land but a permanent house and the work and relationships it represents. Wealth, Rank, and Social Merit Rotuman concepts of what constitutes a good house have been shaped by missionary teaching and example, experiences with other outsiders, and concerns for practicality and convenience. Whatever its genesis, the predominance of European-style housing bears witness to a valuing of imported over indigenous models.
Locally produced food formed the basis for commerce with whalers and other European ships from the time of first recorded contact with Europeans (HMS Pandora) in 1791. In addition, Rotumans eagerly signed aboard passing ships as crew and earned money as sailors and pearl divers. Trading in copra was established by the 1870s, and copra has remained Rotuma’s chief export, despite fluctuations in production and declining profits in recent decades. After incorporation as a British colony in 1881, Rotuma was closed as a port of entry, so most opportunities for trade, employment, and education were pursued in and through Fiji.