Social Anthropology: Recent submissions
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The social lives of UK fashion blogs
(University of St Andrews, 2013-11-30) - ThesisThis thesis is the result of twenty-five months of ethnographic fieldwork, both online and offline, in the United Kingdom working with London-based fashion bloggers. It aims to examine the ways that bloggers negotiate ... -
The victims of a sorted life : ageing and caregiving in an American retirement community
(University of St Andrews, 2013-07-30) - ThesisThis thesis is an ethnographic analysis of a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) in the American Midwest. I examine salient aspects of American culture, and how persons in the American Midwest understand relationships ... -
Traditional authority revisited : ancestors, development and an alternative tempo-morality in Ho, Ghana
(University of St Andrews, 2012) - ThesisThis thesis endeavours to re-theorise traditional authority through a consideration of chieftaincy within Ghana’s Asogli Traditional Area. Chiefs’ increasing activity in the implementation of development projects, has ... -
The subversion of everyday life : an anthropological study of radical political practices : the Greek revolt of December 2008
(University of St Andrews, 2012-11-30) - Thesis -
In and around Beijing with Mr Yang and others : space, modernisation and social interaction
(University of St Andrews, 2013-06) - ThesisThe aim of my PhD project has been to understand how Hutong residents’ ideas about living space have been different from those living in the high-rise compound and how their concept of living space has been changed by both ...