Social Anthropology: Recent submissions
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Metafreedom? The carnivalesque of freedom in a Brazilian favela
(University of St Andrews, 2012-05-15) - ThesisThis thesis dwells on the existence of freedom in the life of people in a Brazilian favela (shantytown). The ethnography presents the dance of freedom with the full intensity of a carnivalesque. The exploration also ponders ... -
On the margins of the states : contesting Gypsyness and belonging in the Slovak-Ukrainian-Hungarian borderlands and in selected migration contexts
(University of St Andrews, 2012-06-21) - ThesisThis thesis investigates the transnational migration of Slovakian Roma from the eastern borderlands of the European Union to Great Britain. Based on more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork in the village of Tarkovce ... -
The place that words come from... : an ethnography of Quaker worship practices and their social enactment
(University of St Andrews, 2011-11) - ThesisThis thesis addresses the worship practices of contemporary Quakers and their social enactment. It presents an ethnography that attempts to evoke participation in Meeting for Worship at a local site (St Andrews Quaker ... -
Old ways - new ways : Talang Mamak of Tiga Balai, Inderagiri Hulu, Propinsi Riau, Sumatra
(University of St Andrews, 1998) - ThesisIn this thesis I place detailed descriptions of Talang Mamak lives in an historically reconstructed context which focuses upon the Talang Mamak's status as debt-bondsmen of the Sultans of the kingdom of ... -
Scottish Highlanders in colonial Georgia : the recruitment, emigration and settlement at Darien, 1735-1748
(University of St Andrews, 1996) - ThesisThis volume is a study of the immigration of three individual groups of Scottish Highlanders as they ventured to the new colony of Georgia in British North America between the years 1735 and 1748. ...