Social Anthropology: Recent submissions
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Epidemic events : state-formation, class struggle and biopolitics in three epidemic crises of modern China
(University of St Andrews, 2010-06-25) - ThesisBased on extended research on Chinese medical and epidemiological archival material dating back to the beginning of the 20th century, and on six months of internship in epidemiology in Beijing’s Medical School and in Haidian ... -
Kametsa asaiki : the pursuit of the 'good life' in an Ashaninka village (Peruvian Amazonia)
(University of St Andrews, 2011) - ThesisThis thesis is an ethnographic study of the pursuit of kametsa asaiki (‘the good life’) in an Ashaninka village by the Bajo Urubamba River (Peruvian Amazonia). My study centres on Ashaninka social organization in a context ... -
Placing Paamese : locating concerns with place, gender and movement in Vanuatu
(University of St Andrews, 2011-06) - ThesisThis is a study of coming to know what it is to be Paamese. The work seeks to present an anthropological understanding of ontological concerns that constitute a Paamese perception of subjectivities. I take my lead from ... -
Moral geographies in Kyrgyzstan : how pastures, dams and holy sites matter in striving for a good life
(University of St Andrews, 2011-06-24) - ThesisThis thesis is an ethnography of how places like mountain pastures (jailoos), hydro-electric dams and holy sites (mazars) matter in striving for a good life. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in the Toktogul valley of ... -
Moving through dance between New York and Dakar : ways of learning Senegalese 'Sabar' and the politics of participation
(University of St Andrews, 2010) - ThesisThis thesis explores a network of participants, dance students and teachers, who travel between New York City and Dakar, Senegal, around the practice of West African dance forms. Focusing on the Senegalese dance-rhythms ...