Shifting tectonics in the Cook Islands: Titikaveka Church Rarotonga
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Budgett, Jeanette
Gately, J.
Gately, J.
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2009
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Conference Contribution - Paper in Published Proceedings
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Rarotonga (Cook Islands)
Titikaveka Church (Rarotonga, Cook Islands)
church architecture
missionary churches
London Missionary Society (LMS)
Cook Island architecture
Pasifika architecture
architecture and culture
colonialism
Pasifika
Titikaveka Church (Rarotonga, Cook Islands)
church architecture
missionary churches
London Missionary Society (LMS)
Cook Island architecture
Pasifika architecture
architecture and culture
colonialism
Pasifika
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Budgett, J. (2009). Shifting tectonics in the Cook Islands: Titikaveka Church Rarotonga. In Gately, J. (Ed), Cultural crossroads: Proceedings of the 26th International SAHANZ Conference Cultural Crossroads Conference, Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand. Auckland, New Zealand and Gold Coast, Australia.
https://hdl.handle.net/10652/6877
Abstract
The first Christian churches in the Cook Islands were complex objects in the colonial encounter. The large thatched roof surfaces of the Pacific house, recessive against their backdrop of tropical vegetation and earthen cultivation, were trumped by the massive white walls of European influence. A tectonic exchange ensued between the coral walls and the traditional Pacific roof that would be played out over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and particularly so at the Titikaveka Church on Rarotonga (1841). Titikaveka was one of two London Missionary Society (LMS) churches in the eastern Pacific to be built with exposed coral slab courses. (Papato’ai Chapel on Eimeo in the Society Islands was the other). This labour-intensive method was used once only in the Cook Islands and subsequent mission building used the less exacting technique of rubble stone and lime plaster wall construction. The paper argues that such architectonic operations constituted key moments in the colonial encounter.
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