Social Anthropology Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Transient observations : the textualizing of St Helena through five hundred years of colonial discourse 

      Schulenburg, Alexander Hugo (University of St Andrews, 1999) - Thesis
      This thesis explores the textualizing of the South Atlantic island of St Helena (a British Overseas Territory) through an analysis of the relationship between colonizing practices and the changing representations of the ...

    • Locations of envy : an ethnography of Aguabuena potters 

      Castellanos Montes, Daniela (University of St Andrews, 2012-12-04) - Thesis
      This thesis is an anthropological exploration of the envy of Aguabuena people, a small rural community of potters in the village of Ráquira, in the Boyacá region of Andean Colombia. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork ...

    • The pattern changes changes : gambling value in Highland Papua New Guinea 

      Pickles, Anthony J. (University of St Andrews, 2013-06-27) - Thesis
      This 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 

      Kao, Hsin-chieh (University of St Andrews, 2012-11-30) - Thesis
      This 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 

      Lino e Silva, Moises (University of St Andrews, 2012-05-15) - Thesis
      This 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 ...