Social Anthropology Theses: Recent submissions
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"¡Yo soy Aymara, yo soy calle!" : a study of young people re-imagining indigeneity and resisting marginalisation in El Alto, Bolivia
(University of St Andrews, 2013) - ThesisThis thesis explores the new self-narratives which are currently being created by young alteños with experience of living and/or working on the streets. These young people are projecting their visions for the future and ... -
The development of pre-Hispanic art forms in Peru : seen as an outgrowth of textile techniques and their influence upon art forms and depiction of symbols
(University of St Andrews, 1988) - ThesisPre-Hispanic geometric art forms In Peru and the Andean Area are taken to be an outgrowth of textile techniques. Textiles and fibre arts predate ceramics by several millennia In the Central Andean Area. The ... -
Roots of/routes to : practice and performance of identity in the Isle of Man
(University of St Andrews, 2004) - ThesisThis thesis takes as its ethnographic focus the Isle of Man, a British Crown Dependency. In the 1960s, the Manx government faced an economic crisis. The response was to open the Island to international banking, becoming ... -
Images of the Dai : the aesthetics of gender and identity in Xishuangbanna
(University of St Andrews, 2002) - ThesisThis thesis is based on fieldwork carried out m Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China. The main focus of the work is the Dai people, one of China's fifty-five so called 'Minority Nationalities'. ... -
Love and hate among the people without things : the social and economic relations of the Enxet people of Paraguay
(University of St Andrews, 2000) - ThesisThis thesis examines the social and economic relations of the Enxet indigenous people of the Paraguayan Chaco region who place a high value on egalitarianism, generosity and personal autonomy. However, during the ...