Christmas Island: An Anthropological Study
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Christmas Island: An Anthropological Study By Simone Dennis

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Animals in Analysis

72

Animals, Movement, and Metaphor

74

Animals and Claims to Place

76

Food, Animals, and Borders

80

Chapter 3: Staying and Moving in Local Places

85

How to Make a Neighbourhood

87

Making Locals on Christmas Island

105

The Sensual Past in the Present Body

107

Labour and Reliably Local Locals

114

Running on Local Status: Government Elections

122

Future Labour, Future Movement

124

Chapter 4: Moving Between Places

131

Of Borders

137

National Angst, National Borders

137

The Safe Interior: Constructing Island Borders

141

Island Metaphors and Dangers From Over the Water

145

Internal Borders

153

Sensual Divisions

158

Crossing the Internal Divide: Pan-Island Crabs

163

Chapter 5: Leaving Christmas Island

167

Away

167

Lost

174

Seeking Same

179

Almost Found

181

Leaving It All Behind

185

Chapter 6: In Movement, in Memory

189

References

195

Index

209