Social Anthropology: Recent submissions
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Being German and being Paraguayan in Nueva Germania : arguing for “contextual epistemic permissibility” and “methodological complementarity”
(University of St Andrews, 2017-12-20) - ThesisThis thesis involves a collaborative study of emic articulations and quotidian ways of ‘being German’ and ‘being Paraguayan’ in Nueva Germania, a rural municipality in Paraguay. An argument is made that the social categories ... -
Aasenîkon! Makushi travelogues from the borderlands of Southern Guyana
(University of St Andrews, 2017-12-08) - ThesisThis ethnographic account focuses on the conceptions and practices of movement, as narrated by the Makushi people who live along the triple frontier of southern Guyana. The journeys - individual experiences, in particular ... -
Living with Durham Cathedral : understanding the dynamic relationships between a community and their cathedral
(University of St Andrews, 2017-06-29) - ThesisCathedrals today are no longer sites of just religious worship, they must be many things to many people such as tourist attractions, heritage centres, and meeting places. Today, Durham Cathedral in the north-east of England ... -
Stories of the invisible mine : ethnographic account of stakeholder relations at the Frieda River Project, Papua New Guinea
(University of St Andrews, 2015-08) - ThesisLocated amid tropical rainforest, in an upper tributary of the Sepik River, the Frieda River area is home to one of the biggest undeveloped gold and copper deposits in the Pacific. Exploration of Frieda’s rich deposits has ... -
Secretly familiar : public secrets of a post traumatic diaspora
(University of St Andrews, 2015-05) - ThesisIn 1979, the socio-political landscape of Iran was transformed beyond recognition. After years of conflict between the Shah and a myriad of political opposition groups, it seemed that the pe ...