Social Anthropology Theses: Recent submissions
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Articulating life-itself : growth, place and movement on Mugaba (Rennell) in the Solomon Islands
(University of St Andrews, 2020-12-02) - ThesisMugaba (Rennell) and Mugiki (Bellona) in the Solomon Islands, is the site of multiple stories, to which different values are given through different registers of 'life-itself'. Research expeditions that renamed Mugaba's ... -
Infrastructure in Melanesia : imaginaries, experiences and practices of road making in Buka Island
(University of St Andrews, 2021-06-28) - ThesisThis thesis explores Melanesian concepts of roads based on multilocal ethnographic research on different kinds of roads in Buka Island, the northern island of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. It ... -
The promise of Andean khipu transcriptions : a multi-scale investigation
(University of St Andrews, 2022-06-13) - ThesisAmong the most distinctive documents from the early-colonial Andes are Spanish-language transcriptions of information rendered, in various settings, from khipus—undeciphered knotted string devices that served the function ... -
Involuted self : the making of elite students in an honored college in Northwest China
(2023-11-29) - ThesisAbstract redacted -
Deciphering the multilevel Khipu structures : a mixed-methods triangulation modelled on the communal Khipu Boards of Mangas and Casta
(2023-11-29) - ThesisSince the Middle Horizon the Khipu, or cord writing, of Peru has employed standardised signs. The Inka empire further extended the Khipu for the recording of various aspects of mundane and ritual life. Later, hybrid Khipu ...