‘Death and his body-servant’: health, architecture and missionary endeavour at the Anelcauhat Mission House, Vanuatu

Remaining healthy was a major consideration for both indigenous and European peoples in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) during early contact. While local communities were often devastated by introduced disease, new missionaries sought practical ways to overcome the impact of tropical ailments that they considered to undermine the effectiveness of their activities. From the early 1850s onwards, Presbyterian missionaries in the southern New Hebrides began to construct ‘healthy’ homes, of which the surviving masonry mission house at Anelcauhat, Aneityum (1852-3) forms the earliest standing example. This paper draws on the results of both above- and in-ground archaeological recording to examine how the surviving structure reflects nineteenth-century ideas about illness and well-being before discussing the wider trajectory of such house construction, and associated matters connected with local communities, health and architecture that potentially impacted on missionary endeavour. Introduction Detection and annotation - PriSeT: Primer Search Tool - CoVPipe: amplicon-based genome reconstruction - poreCov: rapid sample analysis for nanopore sequencing - VADR: SARS-CoV-2 genome annotation and validation - V-Pipe: calling single-nucleotide variants and viral haplotypes - Haploflow: Multi-strain aware de novo assembly - VIRify: Annotation of viruses in meta-omic data - Genome analysis tools by VBRC - VIRULIGN: Codon-correct multiple sequence alignments - Rfam COVID-19 resources: coronavirus-specific RNA families - UniProt COVID-19 protein portal: rapid access to protein information - Pfam protein families database Tracking, epidemiology and evolution - Covidex: alignment-free subtyping using machine learning - Pangolin: Phylogenetic Assignment of Named Global Outbreak LINeages - BEAST 2: phylodynamics based on Bayesian inference - Phylogeographic reconstruction using air transportation data - COPASI: modeling SARS-CoV-2 dynamics with differential equations - COVIDSIM: epidemiological models of viral spread - CoV-GLUE: tracking nucleotide changes in the SARS-CoV-2 genome - PoSeiDon: Positive Selection Detection and Recombination Analysis Drug design - VirHostNet SARS-CoV-2 release - CORDITE: CORona Drug InTERactions database - CoVex: CoronaVirus Explorer - P-HIPSTer: a virus–host protein–protein interaction resource Concluding remarks