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    Being Dogla : hybridity and ethnicity in post-colonial Suriname 

    Marchand, Iris (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 

    Perwez, Mohammad Shahid. (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 

    Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios (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 

    Gilbert, Véronique (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 

    Partridge, Tristan Henry (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 

    Seldon, Sylvia Renee (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 

    Anderson, Paul (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 

    Lajtai, Laszlo (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 

    Robinson, Thomas F. (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 

    Bull, Nicola Lucy (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 ...
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    AuthorCoxon, Tony (2)Airey, Laura (1)Amarasuriya, Harini Nireka (1)Anderson, Paul (1)Arensen, Lisa Joy (1)Atkinson, Lucy C (1)Bachelet, Sebastien Rene George (1)Bajracharya, Siddhartha B. (1)Baxstrom, Richard (1)Bonelli, Cristobal Rodrigo (1)... View MoreSubjectethics (8)kinship (7)Annexe Thesis Digitisation Project 2017 Block 11 (6)Social Anthropology (6)migration (5)gender (4)Israel (4)Christianity (3)citizenship (3)conflict (3)... View MoreDate Issued2010 - 2017 (60)2000 - 2009 (29)

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