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In addition to oral memories and archival documents, Rodman employs photos, floor plans, and sketches to help tell the story of British-built structures in the New Hebrides, a chain of islands now known as Vanuatu that lie between Fiji and Australia in the southwest Pacific. Britain administered the archipelago with France from 1906 to 1980, and Rodman sees the British buildings as a window on the social history of that expatriate settlement, a way of exploring connections among ideas such as distance, exile, travel, and rootedness as well as considering the colonial mindset. Most of the spaces she considers are official ones the British Residency and British Paddock, officers' housing, district agencies, boats, prisons, and courts. Rodman teaches anthropology at York U. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
