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

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Table of Contents

Foreword

ix

Preface

xvii

Acknowledgments

xxxi

Introduction

1

Being on Christmas

1

A Place in Movements

9

Animal Movement

9

Into Liminal Terrain: Arriving by Boat on (un)Australia

12

Being Local on Christmas

15

Leaving Home

19

Four Movements

20

A Moving Disciplinary Orientation

22

Chapter 1: An Ethnographic Introduction to Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, Australia

27

Finding Christmas Island

27

Island Places

40

Some Notes on Sensual Movement

59

Chapter 2: The More Than Human World of Christmas

63

Chromatic Variance

64

Gold

64

Blue

66

Red

68

Walking, Listening, and Remembering With Animals

69