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Religious men and literacy in Berti society
(University of St Andrews, 1984) - Thesis
The thesis examines the use of traditional literacy promulgated
by the Koranic schools among the Berti in the Northern Darfur
Province of the Republic of the Sudan. This literacy is restricted
both in the scope of its ...
Acta and omissions
(University of St Andrews, 1989) - Thesis
I identify and examine the grounds on which we describe an
agent's non-doing as an omission to do X, and a cause of Y. I
distinguish between the formal and material aspects of an omission.
This is useful in setting aside ...
Freud's concept of the unconscious
(University of St Andrews, 1983) - Thesis
The concept of the Outlook Tower in the work of Patrick Geddes
(University of St Andrews, 1987) - Thesis
As an academic, a scholar and a thinker Patrick Geddes worked in a wide and diverse range of intellectual fields. He was active in biology and botany, geography, sociology, what came to be called town planning, history and ...
The self and self-conciousness
(University of St Andrews, 1988) - Thesis
It is the aim of this thesis to consider two accounts of
1st-person utterances that are often mistakenly conflated - viz.
that involving the 'no-reference' view of "I", and that of the
non-assertoric thesis of avowals. ...
Evangelization in the writings of Latin American liberation theologians
(1988) - Thesis
This dissertation investigates evangelization in the writings of
ten Roman Catholic and Protestant theologians who were chosen due to
their interaction with the major themes of Liberation Theology and their
interest in ...
Social stratification among the Zaghawa Muslim community in the Sudan
(University of St Andrews, 1988) - Thesis
This thesis is concerned with the social organization of the Zaghawa Muslim community in the Northern Darfur province of the Republic of the Sudan. The Zaghawa are internally divided into two distinct groups beri and mai. ...
Humiliation : a theme in ecclesiastical folklore
(University of St Andrews, 1983) - Thesis
This work is an investigation into the background of a phemomenon found in the field of folklore, namely, public shame. In particular, the Spanish Inquisition provides the context for an enquiry into why a people accepted ...
Art and understanding
(University of St Andrews, 1989-07) - Thesis
The essay explores topics related to the objectivity and rationality of aesthetics. Initially, the nature of objectivity is considered. The question is raised: what is it for something to be objective? Various metaphysical ...
The development of pre-Hispanic art forms in Peru : seen as an outgrowth of textile techniques and their influence upon art forms and depiction of symbols
(University of St Andrews, 1988) - Thesis
Pre-Hispanic geometric art
forms In Peru
and the Andean Area
are taken to be
an
outgrowth of textile techniques. Textiles
and
fibre
arts predate ceramics
by
several millennia
In the Central Andean Area. The ...