Social Anthropology Theses: Recent submissions
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Religious men and literacy in Berti society
(University of St Andrews, 1984) - ThesisThe thesis examines the use of traditional literacy promulgated by the Koranic schools among the Berti in the Northern Darfur Province of the Republic of the Sudan. This literacy is restricted both in the scope of its ... -
At home in national parks : a study of power, knowledge and discourse in Banff National Park and Cairngorms National Park
(University of St Andrews, 2006) - ThesisNational Parks bear greater implications than simply preserving or conserving pockets of landscape. They evoke values of conservation versus development, livelihood economics, environmental stewardship and personal ... -
The Rainbow Family : an ethnography of spiritual postmodernism
(University of St Andrews, 2006) - ThesisThe Rainbow Family of Living Light is an intentional society devoted to achieving world peace through spiritual healing. A loose association of spiritual seekers that explicitly rejects all forms of leadership and imposed ... -
Of life and happines: morality, aesthetics, and social life among the southeastern Amazonian Mebengokré (Kayapó), as seen from the margins of ritual
(University of St Andrews, 2003) - ThesisThis thesis deals with different aspects of the processes of production of sociability among the Xikrin-Mebengokre of the Catete River, central Brazil. I focus on ceremonies and their performance, as ways of access to ... -
Islam, traditional beliefs and ritual practices among the Zaghawa of Sudan
(University of St Andrews, 1991) - ThesisThis thesis is about the traditional beliefs and the process of Islamization among the Zaghawa. It examines Islam as understood and practised by the Zaghawa society rather than the "universal model" of Islam or Islam as ...