Social Anthropology Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Phonology of San Martin Quechua 

      Howkins, Douglas William (University of St Andrews, 1972) - Thesis
      While the present work is far from being a definitive one, it does aim at providing a fairly complete phonology of San Martin Quechua. The author has tried to give a satisfactory account of the descriptive problems and ...

    • Archaeology of Trobriand knowledge: Foucault in the Trobriand Islands 

      Slattery, David P. (University of St Andrews, 1992) - Thesis
      This thesis holds that the application of the archaeological method, developed by the French philosopher Michel Foucault, to the field of anthropology reveals a hitherto hidden primitive episteme. Such a project represents ...

    • Religious men and literacy in Berti society 

      Eltom, Abdullahi Osman (University of St Andrews, 1984) - Thesis
      The 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 

      Rettie, Kathleen (University of St Andrews, 2006) - Thesis
      National 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 

      Berger, Adam (University of St Andrews, 2006) - Thesis
      The 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 ...