buildings

and neighbourhood labour, 17, 21, 85, 101, 124–125

habitual stance of, xxiii, 16, 61, 85, 88–89, 91, 94, 98, 103, 105

resignification of, 18, 86, 98–99, 102, 111, 127n5

Casey, Edward, xxiii–xxvii, 4–6, 21, 60, 92, 119–121, 126, 131, 168, 175–178

cemeteries, x, 15, 46, 56, 77, 95, 110–111

Chinese

food, xi, xxi, 20, 48, 80–83, 108–110, 115–116, 128n6, 185

habits of neighbourhood, 15–16, 50–51, 57, 88–89, 91–93, 127n4

historical presence on island, 16, 101, 119

mining labour, 32, 34, 51–52, 75, 99

Christmas Island Shire Council, 51, 87, 100, 103–104, 106, 122–124

Clunies Ross, Andrew, 30

Clunies Ross, George, 30

crabs

blue, 66

capacity for language, 77, 80, 192

claims to locality, xx, 20, 79, 115, 126, 192

crab sickness, xx, 108

in metaphor, xxi–xxii, xxv–xxvi, 12, 67, 75, 82, 105, 136, 150–152, 191

migration, 111–113, 150

red, 1, 7, 9–11, 45, 57, 69, 71, 81–82, 192

robber, 63, 67

danger, 55, 81, 136, 138–139, 143–153, 186, 190

domestic rhythms. See habits

Douglas, Mary, xix, 82, 148–150

Drumsite, 16, 44, 47–48, 52–53, 69, 101, 103

Duncanson, Ian, xxvi, 37, 78, 84n4, 141, 143, 146, 149, 151–152

egg

blood eggs. See blood, in eggs

ethnic relationships and, 109–110, 185–186, 192

in memory, 179–181

ethnoarchitecture. See buildings, habitual stance of

Europeans

habits of neighbourhood, xxi, 16, 46, 54, 81, 85–86, 88–89, 91, 93–109, 118–119

historical presence on island, xxiii, 15, 28–29, 31–35

Excision from Migration Zone Act 2001, 40

food

anthropological theorising of, 53, 81–82, 92, 150, 171–172

avoidances, xx, 20, 67, 81–83, 115, 129n10, 150, 165n2, 192

ethnicity and, xxi, 80–83, 104, 109, 128n6, 147–148, 185–187, 191

memory and, 20, 54, 59, 61, 64, 71, 89, 91–92, 109, 181–183

Hage, Ghassan, xxv–xxvi, 35–36, 131, 133, 139–141, 177–178

heritage, built. See buildings, habitual stance of