Browsing by Name "University of St Andrews. Social Anthropology"
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Towards moral and authentic generalization : humanity, individual human beings and distortion
(2012) - Journal articleThe article treats the issue of generality. How may one conceive of the relationship between the uniqueness of individuality and the commonality of the human (species and society) without reduction? Can generalization be ... -
Understanding gender inequality actions in the Pacific : ethnographic case-studies & policy options
(European Union, Publications Office of the European Union, 2016) - ReportThe prevalence of violence against women in the Pacific region is among the highest in the world. Countries across the Pacific region have put in place policy strategies, legal frameworks and a raft of initiatives, but ... -
Voice, History and Vertigo : Doing justice to the dead through imaginative conversation
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014-09) - Book item -
Wealth and envy in the Mongolian gold mines
(2008) - Journal article -
What is a schema? : Invited contribution to symposium on Philippe Descola
(2014) - Journal itemComment on Descola, Philippe. 2013. Beyond nature and culture. Translated by Janet Lloyd with a foreword by Marshall Sahlins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. -
Writing with twisted cords : the inscriptive capacity of Andean khipu texts
(2017) - Journal articleTwo newly discovered khipu (Andean twisted cord) epistles are presented as evidence that khipus could constitute an intelligible writing system, accessible to decipherment. Recent scholars have asserted that khipus were ... -
Zoonotic diagrams : mastering and unsettling human-animal relations
(2017-09) - Journal articleThis article approaches interspecies relations through an examination of the prevalent visual device employed in the representation of animal-human infection in the life sciences: the zoonotic cycles diagram. After charting ... -
Аюултай Xишиг : Монголын албан бус алтны уурхайн эдийн засаг дахь хөрөнгө ба эцэгчлэл
(Admon Press, 2010) - Book