Social Anthropology Theses: Recent submissions
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Wandering becomings : free movement, farm labouring and desires of becoming amongst Romanian migrants in the Danish countryside
(University of St Andrews, 2020-07-27) - ThesisThis thesis explores the everyday implications of labour migration within the European Union. Every year many people from Romania travel to work in Danish agriculture to gain a better livelihood. Due to issues of corruption ... -
Partnerships and understanding between Kazakh pastoralists and golden eagles of the Altai mountains : a multi-species ethnography
(University of St Andrews, 2019-12-04) - ThesisThis thesis is a study of the Kazakh tradition of hunting in partnership with golden eagles in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia. It represents a unique relationship among the spectrum of human-animal interactions – here ... -
Weaving through life : an ethnographic study of the significance of pandanus work to the people of Futuna Island, Vanuatu
(University of St Andrews, 2019-12-04) - ThesisThis thesis investigates how workers of pandanus on Futuna Island engage with and navigate the world around them through their work. Pandanus work is integral to social life: it nurtures, sustains, creates meaning and ... -
‘The work of the heart’ : self-transformation amongst the people of Awim, Papua New Guinea
(University of St Andrews, 2017-06-20) - ThesisThis thesis analyses a significant shift in how Awim people in the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, conceive of, experience and talk about themselves, their relations with one another, and their world. My ethnographic ... -
'Literary spaces without readers' : the paradoxes of being a 'writer' in Havana, Cuba
(University of St Andrews, 2019-06-24) - ThesisCuban writers have long struggled for publishing space. Historically that had been because of repressive control of publishing mechanisms during the colonial period and the time of the Republic, which, when access was ...