Social Anthropology: Recent submissions
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The Rainbow Family : an ethnography of spiritual postmodernism
(University of St Andrews, 2006) - ThesisThe Rainbow Family of Living Light is an intentional society devoted to achieving world peace through spiritual healing. A loose association of spiritual seekers that explicitly rejects all forms of leadership and imposed ... -
Of life and happines: morality, aesthetics, and social life among the southeastern Amazonian Mebengokré (Kayapó), as seen from the margins of ritual
(University of St Andrews, 2003) - ThesisThis thesis deals with different aspects of the processes of production of sociability among the Xikrin-Mebengokre of the Catete River, central Brazil. I focus on ceremonies and their performance, as ways of access to ... -
Islam, traditional beliefs and ritual practices among the Zaghawa of Sudan
(University of St Andrews, 1991) - ThesisThis thesis is about the traditional beliefs and the process of Islamization among the Zaghawa. It examines Islam as understood and practised by the Zaghawa society rather than the "universal model" of Islam or Islam as ... -
'Es una comunidad libre' : contesting the potential of indigenous communities in southeastern Bolivia
(University of St Andrews, 2012-06-21) - ThesisThe thesis is a study of a Guaraní community (comunidad) situated in the Department of Santa Cruz in the southeastern lowlands of Bolivia. The thesis uses the concept of ‘comunidad’ as a focus of investigation. While this ... -
The social reproduction of Jamaica Safar in Shashamane, Ethiopia
(University of St Andrews, 2011-11-30) - ThesisSince the 1950s, men and women, mainly Rastafari from the West Indies, have moved as repatriates to Shashamane, Ethiopia. This is a spiritually and ideologically oriented journey to the promised land of Ethiopia (Africa) ...