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Being Dogla : hybridity and ethnicity in post-colonial Suriname
(The University of Edinburgh, 2014-11-26)
This thesis explores hybridity and ethnicity in Nickerie, Western Suriname. It
undertakes this exploration from the perspective of doglas, Surinamese people with
mixed African and Asian parentage. In Suriname’s postcolonial ...
Death before Birth : Negotiating Reproduction, Female Infanticide and Sex Selective Abortion in Tamil Nadu, South India
(University of Edinburgh, 2009)
This thesis deals with the cultural and political underpinnings of female infanticide
and sex selective abortion in contemporary South India. Based on a fifteen months'
ethnographic fieldwork in western parts of Salem ...
The Island of Crossed Destinies : human and other-than-human perspectives in Afro-Cuban divination
(The University of Edinburgh, 2011)
This thesis focuses on the significance and articulation of divinatory practices in
Cuba a place where a number of different religious traditions (mainly of African
and European origins) have come to coexist. Reflecting ...
Mokk Pooj: gender, interpretive labour and sexual imaginary in Senegal’s art/work of seduction
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-05)
This thesis examines the evolving gender relationships exposed by and contested
through the Senegalese art of seduction, mokk pooj. The Wolof expression
encompasses a set of feminine attitudes and actions (culinary ...
Action and value: community, livelihoods and indigenous struggle in Highland Ecuador
(The University of Edinburgh, 2014-11-26)
This thesis is an ethnographic study of collaborative action and notions of value in
San Isidro, an indigenous community of c.90 families in Ecuador’s central highlands.
Drawing on Arendt’s theory of action as a mode of ...
Orania and the reinvention of Afrikanerdom
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-07-01)
In 1991 a private town for Afrikaners was established on the bank of the Orange
River, in the semi-desert of South Africa’s Northern Cape Province. As a
deliberately Afrikaans, and thus white, community, the town’s aims ...
Threads of virtue : the ethical lives of Syrian textile traders
(The University of Edinburgh, 2011)
This thesis is an ethnographic study of ethical concepts and practices among
contemporary Muslim textile traders and entrepreneurs in Aleppo, Syria. It draws on
Lambek's perspective that ethics is 'ordinary': an inherent ...
Multilingualism, social inequalities, and mental health: an anthropological study in Mauritius
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-07-01)
This thesis analyses two different features of Mauritian society in
relation to multilingualism. The first is how multilingualism appears in
everyday Mauritian life. The second is how it influences mental health
provision ...
Cooperation and quality of life among Bering Sea fishermen and their families
(The University of Edinburgh, 2007-11)
Bering Sea pollock fishing is characterized by high levels of physical risk,
uncertainties in wages and schedule, close and extensive interdependence on other
workers, and long absences from home. This occupation leads ...
Face to Face with the Lewis Chessmen: an exploration of childrenʼs engagement with material heritage at the National Museum of Scotland
(The University of Edinburgh, 2014-11-26)
Museums can be productive sites for the study of society, because they are spaces
where the constitution of knowledge about the past is made visible through public
display. Playing an important role in the performance ...