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Plague masks : the visual emergence of anti-epidemic personal protection equipment
(2018-11-14) - Journal articleOften described as “masks” face-worn devices are employed as personal protection equipment by health workers and the general public and considered to be an indispensable technology against epidemics. Simultaneously, they ... -
The making of regional systems : the Tapajós/Madeira and Trombetas/Nhamundá regions in the lower Brazilian Amazon, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
(2018-10-01) - Journal articleBuilding on Neil Whitehead’s work in northern South America, this article considers the formations of two different deep-forest regional networks. Though these Amerindian spaces have origins in the precolonial past, this ... -
Rethinking Amerindian spaces in Brazilian history
(2018-10-01) - Journal articleThis special issue on Amerindian spaces is the result of a workshop held at the University of St. Andrews, UK, in June 2015. We asked participants to examine key concepts related to spatial history, such as borderlands, ... -
Making renting right : ethics of economy in the Edinburgh private rented sector
(University of St Andrews, 2018-06-28) - ThesisRecent decades have seen a shift in Scotland in terms of the provision of housing and housing-related services from the public sector to the private sector. In statistical terms, the proportion of Scottish households in ... -
Friendship, anthropology
(Open Anthropology Cooperative Press, 2017-01) - Book item
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