Social Anthropology Theses: Recent submissions
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Quechua religious terms in the departments of Apurimac and San Martin, Peru
(1976) - ThesisMy thesis "Quechua Religious Terms in the Departments of Apurimac and San Martin, Peru" deals with the problem of changing meaning-loads of Quechua religious terms. I chose the departments (counties) of Apurimac and San ... -
Evangelization in the writings of Latin American liberation theologians
(1988) - ThesisThis dissertation investigates evangelization in the writings of ten Roman Catholic and Protestant theologians who were chosen due to their interaction with the major themes of Liberation Theology and their interest in ... -
The biblical concept of conversion and its social implications from a Latin American perspective
(1991) - ThesisThis work presents a concept of conversion using the researches of Liberation theologians and the relation of Jesus to four groups in the Synoptics. In chapter one, the main concern is the hermeneutical problem as ... -
Fertile words : aspects of language and sociality among Yanomami people of Venezuela
(2004) - ThesisIn the first part of the thesis (Chapters I to 7)1 discuss two Yanomami myths of origin, namely the myth of the origin of the night, and the myth of the master of banana plants. While drawing heavily on Lizot's ethnographical ... -
When sadness is beautiful : a study of the place of rationality and emotions within the social life of the Àve de Jesus
(2000) - ThesisThe ethnographic object of study of my thesis is a group of penitents, called ‘Ave de Jesus’, that dwells in the hinterlands of Northeast Brazil. As many other groups and penitents of this area they have a strong devotion ...