Social Anthropology: Recent submissions
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Truth, action, and transition on an energy frontline in Lancashire, UK
(2023-06-12) - ThesisBased on thirteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in the northern English region of Lancashire, this doctoral research focuses on practices of truth-making and relations of responsibility within a community resisting the ... -
The Baya and the Mulao : family, gender and ancestral traditions in Luocheng Mulao Autonomous County, China
(University of St Andrews, 2022-06-13) - ThesisThe villagers in Shangnan’an and Xianan’an, two villages in Luocheng Mulao Autonomous County of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, come mainly from an ethnic minority group named the Mulao; further, most of these ... -
Bursting out of place : island life on Samothraki after the deluge
(University of St Andrews, 2021-06-28) - ThesisThis thesis is the result of the first ethnographic research in Social Anthropology taking place on Samothraki, the northernmost island of Greece. Remote by location, Samothraki is populated by less than 3,000 residents ... -
Ambiguity, nostalgia, dialectic : Saharan nation-states and the legacy of nomadic pastoralism
(University of St Andrews, 2021-06-28) - Thesis -
Translating identities : 'being a missionary' in Papua New Guinea
(University of St Andrews, 2006) - ThesisMany studies of missionaries have taken an historical perspective, looking particularly at missionaries’ role in colonialism. However, missionaries are still very much part of contemporary Papua New Guinea (PNG), with ...