Social Anthropology: Recent submissions

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    • Health professionals and ethnic Pakistanis in Britain : risk, thalassaemia and audit culture 

      Murphy, Richard (University of St Andrews, 2005) - Thesis
      The central theme or `red-thread' that I consider in this thesis is the concept of risk as it is perceived by and affects the two sides of the medical encounter - in this instance ethnic Pakistanis and Health ...

    • Elastic selves and fluid cosmologies : Nahua resilience in a changing world 

      Feather, Conrad (University of St Andrews, 2010-11) - Thesis
      In May 1984, the Nahua, a Panoan speaking indigenous people living in a remote corner of the Peruvian Amazon, experienced their ‘first contact’ with Peruvian national society. 25 years later they appear to many observers ...

    • Sounds of satire, echoes of madness : performance and evaluation in Cefalonia, Greece 

      Pollatou, Efpraxia (University of St Andrews, 2009-08-05) - Thesis
      This thesis is about the construction of 'satire' as an exclusive practice among the Cefalonian and hence proposes the term satiricity (satirikotita). It explores the construction of the category of the Cefalonian "madman" ...

    • A grammar of Resígaro 

      Allin, Trevor R. (1976) - Thesis
      The thesis gives a description within the framework of tagmemic theory of Resigaro, a South American Indian language of the Huitoto group, spoken in the region between the Amazon and the Putumayo, in north-eastern ...

    • The astronomy of Andean myth : the history of a cosmology 

      Sullivan, William F. (University of St Andrews, 1986) - Thesis
      The paper aims to show that Andean myth, on one level, represents a technical language recording astronomical observations of precession and, at the same time, an historical record of simultaneous social and celestial ...