Social Anthropology Theses: Recent submissions
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Emerging peoples : Marubo myth-chants
(University of St Andrews, 2001) - ThesisThis thesis explores the ontological grounds of the interrelations between music and myth among the Marubo, one of the several native peoples of the Pano linguistic family who live not far from the adventitious border ... -
Mobilisation and identity within the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon
(University of St Andrews, 2005) - ThesisThis thesis examines political mobilisation into secular groups within Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. It focuses on context and identity in order to find out why and how Palestinians in the camps mobilise into these ... -
Italian entrepreneurs of the construction business in a time of economic recession : ideas, strategies and movements
(University of St Andrews, 2017-06-22) - ThesisThis thesis is based on an ethnographic study of entrepreneurs of the construction business in Lombardy, Northern Italy. The aim is to gain some understanding of this business, of entrepreneurialism, and of individuals in ... -
Heavenly and grotesque imageries (re)created in the carnival of Oruro, Bolivia
(University of St Andrews, 2003) - ThesisThe dissertation focuses on the creation of imageries in the Carnival of Oruro, in Central-Western Bolivia, where images from different sources are formed and transformed through the development of the festival over time. ... -
The creation of real food and real people : gender complementarity among the Menku of Central Brazil
(University of St Andrews, 2000) - ThesisThe thesis aims to provide a first ethnographic description of the Menkü of Central Brazil by focussing on their non-hierarchical gender-complementarity as it realises itself in relationships of production and reproduction. ...