Social Anthropology Theses: Recent submissions
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Anthropology in the vernacular : an ethnography of doing knowledge on Choiseul Island, Solomon Islands
(University of St Andrews, 2015-11-30) - ThesisThis thesis absorbs and reflects on Choiseul Island responses and caution towards the making of anthropological knowledge. Initial interests that can easily become familiar to anthropology as research topics such as village ... -
In the name of the tourist : landscape, heritage, and social change in Chinchero
(University of St Andrews, 2015-11-30) - ThesisThis thesis examines social change in the Quechua-speaking town of Chinchero (Peru), located 30 km away from the city of Cuzco. It does so by studying the conditions created by touristic development in the Region. It is ... -
"¡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 ...