Social Anthropology Theses: Recent submissions
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The Hardtowners : an ethnographic study focused on a group of long-term unemployed one-parent families living within a Dundee council estate
(University of St Andrews, 2004) - ThesisThis is an ethnographic description and investigation of life on a Scottish council estate. It is based on five unemployed one-parent life histories focusing on their experiences, knowledge and emotions in and around a ... -
Sexual discourse about elderly people in Japan and Britain
(University of St Andrews, 2005) - ThesisThis thesis attempts to pursue and envisage the concrete pathway relating elderly people's sexuality at a discourse level in a broader socio-political context in Japan and Britain as modernised industrial societies. Three ... -
Remaking selves and remaking public space : combating sexual harassment in Cairo post 2011
(University of St Andrews, 2018-06) - ThesisThis thesis focuses on the work of a social movement based in Cairo that dedicated itself to the addressing and reducing sexual harassment, or taḥarush in the streets. Based on a year and five months of fieldwork, this ... -
The moral (im)possibilities of being an applied anthropologist in development : an exploration of the moral and ethical issues that arise in theory and practice
(University of St Andrews, 2004) - ThesisMy broadest aim in this thesis is to explore some of the central ethical concerns of social anthropologists vis-a-vis the phenomena of development. In particular, what I want to bring out and examine is the dynamics of the ... -
Constructing gender in contemporary anthropology
(University of St Andrews, 1996) - ThesisThis thesis explores the ways in which gender and contemporary anthropology interact, with the special emphasis on the areas frequently referred to as "poststructuralist" or "postmodern." More specifically, I look at one ...