Social Anthropology Theses: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ...