Social Anthropology: Recent submissions
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'La planta prohibida' : multi-species cosmopolitics in the Mexican desert
(2024-12-04) - ThesisFocusing on the Chihuahuan Desert of north-central Mexico, I engage with multiple post-humanist theoretical approaches to understand how people relate to their world and the species with whom they co-habit. I focus on a ... -
Analogue rendering and digital imagining : creative praxis in music studios
(University of St Andrews, 2020-12-02) - ThesisThis thesis examines creative process in musical composition and performance, posing the question – how do music-making individuals consider themselves artists? Engaging with composers and musicians, this thesis unpacks ... -
Christianity, stigma, and mass conversion among Spanish Gitanos
(University of St Andrews, 2021-06-28) - ThesisMy doctoral thesis examines the emergence of religiously based worldviews, values, and collective imaginaries among Roma/Gitanos in Spain. Juxtaposing long-term ethnographical observation, interviews with religious leaders, ... -
Making sense of Melayu : an ethnographic study of primary school children in Brunei Darussalam
(University of St Andrews, 2021-06-28) - ThesisThis study examines how social relations in a school, and at home, shape primary school children’s understanding of Melayu (Malay) in Brunei Darussalam. Social relations, specifically the child-child, teacher-pupil, and ... -
The struggle, in utero : choice, control and trust in infertility treatment and abortion rights campaigning in Ireland
(University of St Andrews, 2021-12-01) - ThesisIn May 2018, the citizens of Ireland voted to repeal the 8th amendment of the Constitution, thus overturning the ban on abortion that had been in place for over a century. The vote paved the way for a more general debate ...