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Seeing Red, Tasting Blood: Sensual Citizenship on Christmas Island

Seeing Red, Tasting Blood: Sensual Citizenship on Christmas Island Christmas Islanders participate together in blood metaphors, drawn from the island's biotic life. These metaphors proceed along specific sensual lines such that, in and through participation in this shared sensual citizenship, the identity category ‘Christmas Islanders’ is yielded. Pan-islandic sensory citizenship is based on participation in a highly visual and rhythmic auditory Christmas Island sensorium and other specifically ethnic relationships to the Island proceed primarily along the sensory lines of taste. Participation in particular sensory registers of island life is key in locating Christmas Islanders precisely as such, and is equally important in creating and maintaining ‘senses’ of ethnic difference between them. At the same time as local people participate together in pan-islandic metaphors, some ethnic groups have made sensory connections with the island that are not made by others. These connections are instrumental in locating islanders of particular ethnic membership as ‘native’ (over local), or as damaging to pan-islandic identity. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Taylor & Francis

Seeing Red, Tasting Blood: Sensual Citizenship on Christmas Island

Dennis, Simone
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology , Volume 10 (3): 14 – Sep 1, 2009
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Seeing Red, Tasting Blood: Sensual Citizenship on Christmas Island

Abstract

Christmas Islanders participate together in blood metaphors, drawn from the island's biotic life. These metaphors proceed along specific sensual lines such that, in and through participation in this shared sensual citizenship, the identity category ‘Christmas Islanders’ is yielded. Pan-islandic sensory citizenship is based on participation in a highly visual and rhythmic auditory Christmas Island sensorium and other specifically ethnic relationships to the Island proceed...
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1740-9314
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10.1080/14442210903104968
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Abstract

Christmas Islanders participate together in blood metaphors, drawn from the island's biotic life. These metaphors proceed along specific sensual lines such that, in and through participation in this shared sensual citizenship, the identity category ‘Christmas Islanders’ is yielded. Pan-islandic sensory citizenship is based on participation in a highly visual and rhythmic auditory Christmas Island sensorium and other specifically ethnic relationships to the Island proceed primarily along the sensory lines of taste. Participation in particular sensory registers of island life is key in locating Christmas Islanders precisely as such, and is equally important in creating and maintaining ‘senses’ of ethnic difference between them. At the same time as local people participate together in pan-islandic metaphors, some ethnic groups have made sensory connections with the island that are not made by others. These connections are instrumental in locating islanders of particular ethnic membership as ‘native’ (over local), or as damaging to pan-islandic identity.

Journal

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology – Taylor & Francis

Published: Sep 1, 2009

Keywords: Blood; Christmas Island; Identity; Metaphor; Place; Senses

References

  • ‘The production of locality’
  • ‘How to get from space to place in a fairly short stretch of time: Phenomenological prolegomena’
  • White mythology: Metaphor in the text of philosophy
  • ‘Waterfalls of song: An acoustemology of place resounding in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea’