Social Anthropology Theses: Recent submissions
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Moral geographies in Kyrgyzstan : how pastures, dams and holy sites matter in striving for a good life
(University of St Andrews, 2011-06-24) - ThesisThis thesis is an ethnography of how places like mountain pastures (jailoos), hydro-electric dams and holy sites (mazars) matter in striving for a good life. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in the Toktogul valley of ... -
Moving through dance between New York and Dakar : ways of learning Senegalese 'Sabar' and the politics of participation
(University of St Andrews, 2010) - ThesisThis thesis explores a network of participants, dance students and teachers, who travel between New York City and Dakar, Senegal, around the practice of West African dance forms. Focusing on the Senegalese dance-rhythms ... -
Health professionals and ethnic Pakistanis in Britain : risk, thalassaemia and audit culture
(University of St Andrews, 2005) - ThesisThe central theme or `red-thread' that I consider in this thesis is the concept of risk as it is perceived by and affects the two sides of the medical encounter - in this instance ethnic Pakistanis and Health ... -
Elastic selves and fluid cosmologies : Nahua resilience in a changing world
(University of St Andrews, 2010-11) - ThesisIn May 1984, the Nahua, a Panoan speaking indigenous people living in a remote corner of the Peruvian Amazon, experienced their ‘first contact’ with Peruvian national society. 25 years later they appear to many observers ... -
Sounds of satire, echoes of madness : performance and evaluation in Cefalonia, Greece
(University of St Andrews, 2009-08-05) - ThesisThis thesis is about the construction of 'satire' as an exclusive practice among the Cefalonian and hence proposes the term satiricity (satirikotita). It explores the construction of the category of the Cefalonian "madman" ...