Home In The Islands

Author : Jan Rensel,Margaret Rodman Critchlow
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0824819349

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Home in the Islands by Jan Rensel,Margaret Rodman Critchlow Pdf

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.

Author : Jan Rensel,Margaret Rodman Critchlow
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780824862862

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Home in the Islands by Jan Rensel,Margaret Rodman Critchlow Pdf

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.

Author : Dionne Irving
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781646220670

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The Islands by Dionne Irving Pdf

Shortlisted for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction A Hurston Wright Legacy Award Nominee Longlisted for the 2023 New American Voices Award A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Powerful stories that explore the legacy of colonialism, and issues of race, immigration, sexual discrimination, and class in the lives of Jamaican women across London, Panama, France, Jamaica, Florida and more The Islands follows the lives of Jamaican women—immigrants or the descendants of immigrants—who have relocated all over the world to escape the ghosts of colonialism on what they call the Island. Set in the United States, Jamaica, and Europe, these international stories examine the lives of an uncertain and unsettled cast of characters. In one story, a woman and her husband impulsively leave San Francisco and move to Florida with wild dreams of American reinvention only to unearth the cracks in their marriage. In another, the only Jamaican mother—who is also a touring comedienne—at a prep school feels pressure to volunteer in the school’s International Day. Meanwhile, in a third story, a travel writer finally connects with the mother who once abandoned her. Set in locations and times ranging from 1950s London to 1960s Panama to modern-day New Jersey, Dionne Irving reveals the intricacies of immigration and assimilation in this debut, establishing a new and unforgettable voice in Caribbean-American literature. Restless, displaced, and disconnected, these characters try to ground themselves—to grow where they find themselves planted—in a world in which the tension between what’s said and unsaid can bend the soul.

Author : Nicola Barber
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778735435

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Island Homes by Nicola Barber Pdf

Features homes on big islands, such as japan, as well as small islands, such as Cebu in the Phillipines.

Author : Gretel Ehrlich
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781504042871

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Islands, the Universe, Home by Gretel Ehrlich Pdf

Ten essays on nature, ritual, and philosophy “that are so point-blank vital you nearly need to put the book down to settle yourself” (San Francisco Chronicle). Gretel Ehrlich’s world is one of solitude and wonder, pain and beauty, and these elements give life to her stunning prose. Ever since her acclaimed debut, The Solace of Open Spaces, she has illuminated the particular qualities of nature and the self with graceful precision. In Islands, the Universe, Home, Ehrlich expands her explorations, traveling to the remote reaches of the earth and deep into her soul. She tells of a voyage of discovery in northern Japan, where she finds her “bridge to heaven.” She captures a “light moving down a mountain slope.” She sees a ruined city in the face of a fire-scarred mountain. Above all, she recalls what a painter once told her about art when she was twelve years old, as she sat for her portrait: “You have to mix death into everything. Then you have to mix life into that.” In this unforgettable collection, Ehrlich mixes life and death, real and sacred, to offer a stunning vision of our world that is both achingly familiar and miraculously strange. According to National Book Award–winning author Andrea Barrett, these essays are “as spare and beautiful as the landscape from which they’ve grown. . . . Each one is a pilgrimage into the secrets of the heart.”

Author : Chris Krolow,Jonglez Publishing
Publisher : Jonglez
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Photography
ISBN : 2361950286

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Private Islands for Rent by Chris Krolow,Jonglez Publishing Pdf

Around the world, the owners of private islands have chosen to rent out their properties, delightfully fulfilling many childhood fantasies in the process. After seven years of research we have compiled a list of fifty exceptional islands, each of which is well worth the trip for just a few days, a week or even longer. Whether a tropical island in the Pacific, Asia, South America, the Caribbean, or the Indian Ocean, a lighthouse on the coast of Croatia, Norway or France, or an island in a lake in Canada or the United States, these places are not just the incarnation of a multimillionaire’s dream. They are open to the public – they are open for you.

Author : Thomas Milner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026670192

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Our Home Islands by Thomas Milner Pdf

Author : Thomas Milner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555050352

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Our home islands [by T. Milner by Thomas Milner Pdf

Author : Suzanne S. Finney,Mary Mostafanezhad,Guido Carlo Pigliasco,Forrest Wade Young
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824853792

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At Home and in the Field by Suzanne S. Finney,Mary Mostafanezhad,Guido Carlo Pigliasco,Forrest Wade Young Pdf

Crossing disciplinary boundaries, At Home and in the Field is an anthology of twenty-first century ethnographic research and writing about the global worlds of home and disjuncture in Asia and the Pacific Islands. These stories reveal novel insights into the serendipitous nature of fieldwork. Unique in its inclusion of "homework"—ethnography that directly engages with issues and identities in which the ethnographer finds political solidarity and belonging in fields at home—the anthology contributes to growing trends that complicate the distinction between "insiders" and "outsiders." The obligations that fieldwork engenders among researchers and local communities are exemplified by contributors who are often socially engaged with the peoples and places they work. In its focus on Asia and the Pacific Islands, the collection offers ethnographic updates on topics that range from ritual money burning in China to the militarization of Hawai'i to the social role of text messages in identifying marriage partners in Vanuatu to the cultural power of robots in Japan. Thought provoking, sometimes humorous, these cultural encounters will resonate with readers and provide valuable talking points for exploring the human diversity that makes the study of ourselves and each other simultaneously rewarding and challenging.

Author : Nell Stevens
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385541565

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Bleaker House by Nell Stevens Pdf

When she was twenty-seven, Nell Stevens—a lifelong aspiring novelist—won an all-expenses-paid fellowship to go anywhere in the world to write. Would she choose a glittering metropolis, a romantic village, an exotic paradise? Not exactly. Nell picked Bleaker Island, a snowy, windswept pile of rock in the Falklands. Other than sheep, penguins, paranoia, and the weather, there aren’t many distractions, but as Nell soon discovers, total isolation and 1,085 calories a day are far from ideal conditions for literary production. With deft humor, this memoir traces her island days and slowly reveals the life and people she has left behind in pursuit of her writing. It seems that there is nowhere she can run—an island or the pages of her notebook—to escape the big questions of love, art, and, ambition.

Author : Louise Erdrich
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Lake of the Woods
ISBN : 9780792257196

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Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country by Louise Erdrich Pdf

"An account of Louise Erdrich's trip through the lakes and islands of southern Ontario with her 18-month old baby and the baby's father, an Ojibwe spiritual leader and guide"--

Author : Karen Fog Olwig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135210984

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Small Islands, Large Questions by Karen Fog Olwig Pdf

This book focuses on the post-emancipation period in the Caribbean and how local societies dealt with the new socio-economic conditions. Scholars from Jamaica, the Virgin Islands, England, Denmark and The Netherlands link this era with the contemporary Caribbean.

Author : Austin Aslan
Publisher : Wendy Lamb Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780385374217

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The Islands at the End of the World by Austin Aslan Pdf

In this fast-paced survival story set in Hawaii, electronics fail worldwide, the islands become completely isolated, and a strange starscape fills the sky. Leilani and her father embark on a nightmare odyssey from Oahu to their home on the Big Island. Leilani’s epilepsy holds a clue to the disaster, if only they can survive as the islands revert to earlier ways. A powerful story enriched by fascinating elements of Hawaiian ecology, culture, and warfare, this captivating and dramatic debut from Austin Aslan is the first of two novels. The author has a master’s degree in tropical conservation biology from the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Praise for Islands at the End of the World: “A riveting tale of belonging, family, overcoming perceived limitations, and finding a home.”--School Library Journal, Starred "Aslan’s debut honors Hawaii’s unique cultural strengths--family ties and love of home, amplified by geography and history--while remaining true to a genre that affirms the mysterious grandeur of the universe waiting to be discovered."--Kirkus Reviews, Starred "Aslan’s debut is a riveting tale of belonging, family, overcoming perceived limitations, and finding a home."--School Library Journal, Starred

Author : Richard M. Conway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316518892

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Islands in the Lake by Richard M. Conway Pdf

Thanks to creative uses of the environment, Xochimilco's residents preserved their culture and society in the face of colonial disruption.

Author : Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Publisher : Arp Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Canadian fiction
ISBN : 189403788X

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Islands of Decolonial Love by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Pdf

In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation. Found on reserves, in cities and small towns, in bars and curling rinks, canoes and community centres, doctors offices and pickup trucks, Simpson's characters confront the often heartbreaking challenge of pairing the desire to live loving and observant lives with a constant struggle to simply survive the historical and ongoing injustices of racism and colonialism. Told with voices that are rarely recorded but need to be heard, and incorporating the language and history of her people, Leanne Simpson's Islands of Decolonial Love is a profound, important, and beautiful book of fiction.