Social Anthropology Theses: Recent submissions
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Realities of an 'Orkney way' : communicating perceptions of renewable energy in Orkney, Scotland
(University of St Andrews, 2017-06-22) - ThesisOrkney is currently home to over 400 wind turbines and a growing marine energy industry, developing cutting edge technology for what could be called a global energy transition. Situated off the north tip of the Scottish ... -
Kaale belongings and Evangelical becomings : faith, commitment and social outreach among the Finnish Kaale (Finnish Roma)
(University of St Andrews, 2017-06-22) - ThesisGrounded in a theoretical debate between anthropological studies on Roma/Gypsies and anthropological studies of Christianity, the focus of this thesis is on the experience of social and religious life among members of a ... -
Bougainville revisited : understanding the crisis and U-Vistract through an ethnography of everyday life in Nagovisi
(University of St Andrews, 2015) - ThesisThis thesis offers an ethnographic study of everyday life in Nagovisi of Southwest Bougainville. The study focuses on aspects of how the Nagovisi construe social relations with a specific focus on vernacular categories ... -
Report to the dancefloor : journeys by experience and writing into raving and anthropology
(University of St Andrews, 1998) - ThesisThis work is an ethnography about raving. As such, it is based on the author's actual, inter-subjective and historical experience of that contemporary international social phenomenon in Britain and in Goa (India) during ... -
The Portuguese conquest of the Amazon Estuary : identity, war, frontier (1612-1654)
(University of St Andrews, 2016-12-01) - ThesisThe Portuguese conquest and colonization of Brazil was mediated by the Tupi-Guarani societies that inhabited the Atlantic coast in a discontinuous pattern from the estuary of the River Plate to the mouth of the Amazon. In ...