Social Anthropology Theses: Recent submissions
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Report to the dancefloor : journeys by experience and writing into raving and anthropology
(University of St Andrews, 1998) - ThesisThis work is an ethnography about raving. As such, it is based on the author's actual, inter-subjective and historical experience of that contemporary international social phenomenon in Britain and in Goa (India) during ... -
The Portuguese conquest of the Amazon Estuary : identity, war, frontier (1612-1654)
(University of St Andrews, 2016-12-01) - ThesisThe Portuguese conquest and colonization of Brazil was mediated by the Tupi-Guarani societies that inhabited the Atlantic coast in a discontinuous pattern from the estuary of the River Plate to the mouth of the Amazon. In ... -
The way of the unfinished : approaching migrant lives in São Paulo through resonance
(University of St Andrews, 2016-10-07) - ThesisIn following several international migrants in the city of São Paulo, I found that inarticulate moments of hesitation, uncertainty, or suspension punctuated their trajectories. These fleeting and subtle instances revealed ... -
Bridging worlds : movement, relatedness and social change in two communities of Cartagena de Indias Bay
(University of St Andrews, 2015) - ThesisThe island of Barú, located along the Atlantic coast of Colombia, has occupied, since the colonial era, a geographical and social interstitial position. The island was a strategic space in key processes and events of ... -
The perpetual return of the ancestors : an ethnographic account of the Southern Tepehuan of Mexico and their deities
(University of St Andrews, 2015) - ThesisThis thesis is an ethnographic account of the different ritual domains of interaction between the O’dam of Northern Mexico and their gods. For the O’dam, also known as the Southern Tepehuan, gods, divinities, and ...