Social Anthropology Theses: Recent submissions
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Through the food lens : the politics of everyday life in urban Burkina Faso
(University of St Andrews, 2005) - ThesisThe subject of the thesis is the everyday life of several Muslim and one Christian family residing in different parts of Bobo-Dioulasso, the second largest town in Burkina Faso, situated in the south west, ... -
The social life of miraa : farming, trade, and consumption of a plant stimulant in Kenya
(University of St Andrews, 2003) - ThesisThis thesis traces the paths and trajectories that one substance - the plant stimulant Catha edulis (Forssk.), known in Kenya as 'miraa' - takes in the course of its 'social life' from production, through exchange, to ... -
The foodpaths of Chawpirana people : an ethnography of living inbetweenness in the Bolivian Andes
(University of St Andrews, 2014) - ThesisThis thesis explores the everyday lives of the people of Cabreca ethnographically. Cabreca is an Andean hamlet in the chawpirana of Northern Potosí in Bolivia. The chawpirana is a zone which lies in-between the highlands ... -
Manioc beer and the Word of God : faces of the future in Makuma, Ecuador
(University of St Andrews, 2015) - ThesisHow can anthropologists describe the relationship between Christian and Amazonian ontologies? Based on a 13 months-long fieldwork, this ethnography of the Evangelical mission town of Makuma in lowland Ecuador describes ... -
Knowing best? : an ethnographic exploration of the politics and practices of an international NGO in Senegal
(University of St Andrews, 2015-06-25) - ThesisThis thesis explores the social and political relations of an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Senegal. NGOs and international development have been the subject of research from a number of different ...