Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CAS) Theses: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
The application of geomatic technologies in an indigenous context : Amazonian Indians and indigenous land rights
(2003) - ThesisIndigenous people have employed Western analogue techniques (maps, charts, etc) to support their land rights ever since their traditional territories came under threat. Although indigenous groups utilise such tools there ... -
Kinship and the saturation of life among the Kuna of Panamá
(University of St Andrews, 2010-05) - ThesisThis thesis is an ethnographic analysis of kinship among the Kuna of the San Blas Archipelago of eastern Panamá, which focuses on the creation of bodies and persons. San Blas island villages are characterized by a compact ... -
Syntactic relations in San Martin Quechua
(University of St Andrews, 1977) - ThesisLinguistic description has been described as "the application of a particular linguistic theory to a selected field of linguistic phenomena". The thesis presented here offers a partial application of Axiomatic Functionalism, ... -
Carving wood and creating shamans : an ethnographic account of visual capacity among the Kuna of Panamá
(University of St Andrews, 2008-06-25) - ThesisThis thesis is an ethnographic account of the carving of wooden ritual statues and of the shamanic figure of the seer among the Kuna of the San Blas archipelago of Panamá. Through a study of the production of wooden ritual ...