Traditional Architecture in Vanuatu
Author: Christian Coiffier
Publisher: [email protected]
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9789820200470
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Safeguarding Indigenous Architecture in Vanuatu
Author: Wendy Christie
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Safeguarding Indigenous Architecture in Vanuatu" is the final report of the research carried out by the Vanuatu Culture Centre (VCC) as a Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) following Tropical Cyclone Pam in March 2015. A category 5 cyclone Pam caused widespread damage across Vanuatu, affecting more than half of its population. After the cyclone passed, the role played by the certain type of the indigenous architecture called nakamal during the cyclone as evacuation shelters were much talked about in the local community and the media. The research was then initiated to collect data and information on the conditions of seven significant nakamals in the country. The research was carried out by a group of field-workers coordinated by VCC with the financial assistance under the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) Fund of UNESCO. The research involved collection of data, assessment of structural and material damage, traditional building skills and knowledge and the role of nakamal in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and interpretation of the findings. The field-workers of VCC played important roles in ensuring the community-based inventorying of the tangible and intangible aspects of the indigenous architecture. The final report brings out invaluable testimonies of the village chiefs and community members that stress the importance of nakamal as a shelter, their cultural meanings and social functions that underpin the wellbeing of community. Several challenges facing the nakamal are highlighted, including the proliferation of imported building materials and construction techniques, the shortage of raw materials, the lack of resources required to renovate or reconstruct them. "Without the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the nakamal, there is not tangible buildings, as the built form is dependent on the knowledge and skills retained within the communities" concludes the report. It is hoped that the report will be utilized to enhance recognition of the role of nakamal in DRR and social cohesion and sustainable development of the indigenous community in Vanuatu.
Arts of Vanuatu
Author: Joël Bonnemaison
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780824819569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis prodigiously diverse and living culture has for its spiritual source a single traditional vision central to which is the fact that the world belongs not to the living, but to the ancestors. In Vanuatu art we have the construction of canoes and of standing slit-drums, the inventiveness apparent in the masks and mats, the aesthetics of dress, the raising of tusker pigs, the sharing out of sea-turtle meat, the symbol of the hawk representing the outward sign of the possession of the world through the eyes of the departed. This art, sacred in inspiration, takes root in the magic of each place and shore. Arts of Vanuatu is the first major contemporary anthropology work covering such a range of topics. It is also the first work covering the traditional art of the former South Pacific island colony of the New Hebrides.
Architectural Conservation in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands
Author: John H. Stubbs
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-12-22
Total Pages: 951
ISBN-13: 1003807941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fourth in a series that documents architectural conservation in different parts of the world, Architectural Conservation in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands: National Experiences and Practice addresses cultural heritage protection in a region which comprises one third of the Earth’s surface. In response to local needs, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands have developed some of the most important and influential techniques, legislation, doctrine and theories in cultural heritage management in the world. The evolution of the heritage protection ethos and contemporary architectural conservation practices in Australia and Oceania are discussed on a national and regional basis using ample illustrations and examples. Accomplishments in architectural conservation are discussed in their national and international contexts, with an emphasis on original developments (solutions) and contributions made to the overall field. Enriched with essays contributed from fifty-nine specialists and thought leaders in the field, this book contains an extraordinary breadth and depth of research and synthesis on the why’s and how’s of cultural heritage conservation. Its holistic approach provides an essential resource and reference for students, academics, researchers, policy makers, practitioners and all who are interested in conserving the built environment.
Safeguarding Indigenous Architecture in Vanuatu
Author: Wendy Christie
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Safeguarding Indigenous Architecture in Vanuatu" is the final report of the research carried out by the Vanuatu Culture Centre (VCC) as a Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) following Tropical Cyclone Pam in March 2015. A category 5 cyclone Pam caused widespread damage across Vanuatu, affecting more than half of its population. After the cyclone passed, the role played by the certain type of the indigenous architecture called nakamal during the cyclone as evacuation shelters were much talked about in the local community and the media. The research was then initiated to collect data and information on the conditions of seven significant nakamals in the country. The research was carried out by a group of field-workers coordinated by VCC with the financial assistance under the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) Fund of UNESCO. The research involved collection of data, assessment of structural and material damage, traditional building skills and knowledge and the role of nakamal in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and interpretation of the findings. The field-workers of VCC played important roles in ensuring the community-based inventorying of the tangible and intangible aspects of the indigenous architecture. The final report brings out invaluable testimonies of the village chiefs and community members that stress the importance of nakamal as a shelter, their cultural meanings and social functions that underpin the wellbeing of community. Several challenges facing the nakamal are highlighted, including the proliferation of imported building materials and construction techniques, the shortage of raw materials, the lack of resources required to renovate or reconstruct them. "Without the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the nakamal, there is not tangible buildings, as the built form is dependent on the knowledge and skills retained within the communities" concludes the report. It is hoped that the report will be utilized to enhance recognition of the role of nakamal in DRR and social cohesion and sustainable development of the indigenous community in Vanuatu.
Design and the Vernacular
Author: Paul Memmott
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2023-11-16
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1350294322
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesign and the Vernacular explores the intersection between vernacular architecture, local cultures, and modernity and globalization, focussing on the vast and diverse global region of Australasia and Oceania. The relevance and role of vernacular architecture in contemporary urban planning and architectural design are examined in the context of rapid political, economic, technological, social and environmental changes, including globalization, exchanges of people, finance, material culture, and digital technologies. Sixteen chapters by architects designers and theorists, including Indigenous writers, explore key questions about the agency of vernacular architecture in shaping contemporary building and design practice. These questions include: How have Indigenous and First Nations building traditions shaped modern building practices? What can the study of vernacular architecture contribute to debates about sustainable development? And how has vernacular architecture been used to argue for postcolonial modernisation and nation-building and what has been the effect on heritage and conservation? Such questions provide valuable case studies and lessons for architecture in other global regions -- and challenge assumptions about vernacular architecture being anachronistic and static, instead demonstrating how it can shape contemporary architecture, nation building and cultural identities.
Gunyah, Goondie + Wurley
Author: Paul Memmott
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780702232459
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"When Europeans first reached Australian shores, a long-held and expedient perception developed that Australian Aboriginal people did not have houses or settlements, that they occupied temporary camps, sheltering in makeshift huts or lean-tos of grass and bark. This book redresses that notion, exploring the range and complexity of Aboriginal-designed structures, spaces and territorial behaviour, from minimalist shelters to permanent houses and villages. 'Gunyah, Goondie and Wurley' encompasses Australian Aboriginal Architecture from the time of European contact to the work of the first Aboriginal graduates of university-based courses in architecture, bringing together in one place a wealth of images and research."--Publisher's website.
Home in the Islands
Author: Jan Rensel
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1997-09-01
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780824819347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOrdinary 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.
Housing for Degrowth
Author: Anitra Nelson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-09-03
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1351365231
DOWNLOAD EBOOK‘Degrowth’, a type of ‘postgrowth’, is becoming a strong political, practical and cultural movement for downscaling and transforming societies beyond capitalist growth and non-capitalist productivism to achieve global sustainability and satisfy everyone’s basic needs. This groundbreaking collection on housing for degrowth addresses key challenges of unaffordable, unsustainable and anti-social housing today, including going beyond struggles for a 'right to the city' to a 'right to metabolism', advocating refurbishment versus demolition, and revealing controversies within the degrowth movement on urbanisation, decentralisation and open localism. International case studies show how housing for degrowth is based on sufficiency and conviviality, living a ‘one planet lifestyle’ with a common ecological footprint. This book explores environmental, cultural and economic housing and planning issues from interdisciplinary perspectives such as urbanism, ecological economics, environmental justice, housing studies and policy, planning studies and policy, sustainability studies, political ecology, social change and degrowth. It will appeal to students and scholars across a wide range of disciplines.
Houses Far From Home
Author: Margaret Rodman Critchlow
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2001-02-01
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780824823948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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. Each chapter has at its heart a house where readers can explore dimensions of race, gender, and power that domestic spaces reveal. Moving across time, between different islands and actors, between oral memories and archival documents, Margaret Rodman provides a richly documented "multi-sited ethnography" of the social history of the New Hebrides.
