Social Anthropology Theses: Recent submissions
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The pattern changes changes : gambling value in Highland Papua New Guinea
(University of St Andrews, 2013-06-27) - ThesisThis thesis explores the part gambling plays in an urban setting in Highland Papua New Guinea. Gambling did not exist in (what is now) Goroka Town before European contact, nor Papua New Guinea more broadly, but when I ... -
Labour, life, and language: personhood and relations among the Yami of Lanyu
(University of St Andrews, 2012-11-30) - ThesisThis thesis discusses the concepts of labour, life, and language among the Yami of Lanyu, Taiwan. In the local context, it is labour, life and language that comprise the concept of personhood among the Yami: tao, i.e. ... -
Metafreedom? The carnivalesque of freedom in a Brazilian favela
(University of St Andrews, 2012-05-15) - ThesisThis thesis dwells on the existence of freedom in the life of people in a Brazilian favela (shantytown). The ethnography presents the dance of freedom with the full intensity of a carnivalesque. The exploration also ponders ... -
On the margins of the states : contesting Gypsyness and belonging in the Slovak-Ukrainian-Hungarian borderlands and in selected migration contexts
(University of St Andrews, 2012-06-21) - ThesisThis thesis investigates the transnational migration of Slovakian Roma from the eastern borderlands of the European Union to Great Britain. Based on more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork in the village of Tarkovce ... -
The place that words come from... : an ethnography of Quaker worship practices and their social enactment
(University of St Andrews, 2011-11) - ThesisThis thesis addresses the worship practices of contemporary Quakers and their social enactment. It presents an ethnography that attempts to evoke participation in Meeting for Worship at a local site (St Andrews Quaker ...