TY - JOUR
T1 - Seeing red, tasting blood
T2 - Sensual citizenship on christmas island
AU - Dennis, Simone
PY - 2009/9
Y1 - 2009/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Blood
KW - Christmas Island
KW - Identity
KW - Metaphor
KW - Place
KW - Senses
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=75349103059&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14442210903104968
DO - 10.1080/14442210903104968
M3 - Article
SN - 1444-2213
VL - 10
SP - 186
EP - 199
JO - Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
JF - Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
IS - 3
ER -