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The Baya and the Mulao : family, gender and ancestral traditions in Luocheng Mulao Autonomous County, China
(University of St Andrews, 2022-06-13) - ThesisThe villagers in Shangnan’an and Xianan’an, two villages in Luocheng Mulao Autonomous County of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, come mainly from an ethnic minority group named the Mulao; further, most of these ... -
Bursting out of place : island life on Samothraki after the deluge
(University of St Andrews, 2021-06-28) - ThesisThis thesis is the result of the first ethnographic research in Social Anthropology taking place on Samothraki, the northernmost island of Greece. Remote by location, Samothraki is populated by less than 3,000 residents ... -
Ambiguity, nostalgia, dialectic : Saharan nation-states and the legacy of nomadic pastoralism
(University of St Andrews, 2021-06-28) - Thesis -
Negotiating small differences : conservation organisations and farming in Islay
(University of St Andrews, 2005) - ThesisThis thesis concerns the relationship between two conservation organisations (Scottish Natural Heritage and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) and farming people in Islay, Scotland. The historical discourse of ... -
The owners : creative processes and personhood in the peasant community of San Pablo de Inkawasi (Lambayeque, Peru)
(University of St Andrews, 2021) - ThesisThis thesis is an exploration of how the Quechua-speaking peasants of the community of San Pablo de Inkawasi, in the Andes of northern Peru, make, grow or own things, domestic plants and animals and their own children; ...
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