Browsing Social Anthropology thesis and dissertation collection by Title
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(Re)articulating remains: mass grave exhumation and genocide corpses in Rwanda
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-28)In Rwanda, graves containing the bodies of those killed during conflict and the 1994 genocide hold great significance both for the Rwandan state and for individuals caught up in the violent conflicts that have troubled ... -
"Readiness is all”: anticipating death in the U.K.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2010)This thesis explores some of the different ways in which people anticipate their dying in the U.K. Through an ethnographic exploration of an arts initiative, a social movement, a legal case, and a new law, this thesis ... -
Reading between cultures: social anthropology and the interpretation of Naxi (Na-khi) religious texts
(The University of Edinburgh, 1996) -
Refracted subject: sexualness in the realms of law and epidemiology
(The University of Edinburgh, 2009)There are many ways in which gender diversity and sexualness are experienced, spoken of and transacted in India. Recent activism against marginalisation related to sexual and gender nonconformity has led to transformation ... -
Religious authority and pastoral care in Tibetan Buddhism : the ritual hierarchies of Lingshed Monastery, Ladakh
(The University of Edinburgh, 1997) -
Remnants of humanity: psychiatry and post-socialism in the Czech Republic 1989-2010
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-06-29)This thesis explores the roles that medicine, human rights discourse, and the arts play in the project to improve the lives of patients suffering from severe forms of mental illness in the context of the post-socialist ... -
Royalty in Colonial and Post-Colonial India: A Historical Anthropology of Mysore from 1799 to the present
(2007)This dissertation aims to combat the general neglect into which the study of Indian princely states has fallen. Covering nearly 40% of the Indian subcontinent at the time of Indian independence, their collapse soon after ... -
Rush-weaving in Taiwan : perceptions of the environment and the process of becoming heritage
(The University of Edinburgh, 2011-07-04)This thesis is based on fieldwork carried out among weavers of rush-woven objects in rural Taiwan. In this thesis, I argue that nowadays rush-weaving is good work, though not good labour, for the weavers, and the social ... -
‘Save Our Old Town’: engaging developer-led masterplanning through community renewal in Edinburgh
(The University of Edinburgh, 2012-11-28)Through uneven processes of planning by a multiplicity of participants, Edinburgh’s built environment continues to emerge as the product of many competing strategies and projects of development. The 2005 proposal of a ... -
Save there, eat here: a cultural study of labour migration from a Pakhtun village
(The University of Edinburgh, 1995) -
Searching for Israeliness in 'No Man's Land': an ethnographic research of Israeli citizenship in a zionist academic institute in the 'West-Bank' of Israel/Palestine
(The University of Edinburgh, 2009)This thesis is the result of ethnographic research carried out in an Israeli academic institution, located in the West-Bank of Israel/Palestine. Focusing on the social science department, the research examines the content ... -
Secretly connected? Anonymous semen donation, genetics and meanings of kinship
(2008)The use of donated human semen in the UK was developed by medical practitioners as a means of circumventing male infertility and helping childless women to achieve a pregnancy. Uncertainty about the legal status of ... -
Sex or Sensibility? The making of chaste women and promiscuous men in a Sri Lankan university setting
(The University of Edinburgh, 2011-11-22)It is often claimed that education confers a range of benefits to individuals. From realising their thinking capacities to overcoming class boundaries, the outcomes of education are considered especially beneficial for ... -
Social adaptation of colonial students in London, with special reference to West Africans and West Indians
(The University of Edinburgh, 1955) -
Social organisation of an island community in western Ireland : Clare Island, County Mayo
(The University of Edinburgh, 1958) -
Some aspects of the social and economic development of a highland parish (Kirkmichael, Banffshire) in the 18th Century
(The University of Edinburgh, 1952) -
South Asian women's access to healthcare in Edinburgh
(The University of Edinburgh, 1997) -
Spatial organisation of the villages of the P'eng-hu Archipelago, Taiwan, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
(The University of Edinburgh, 1993) -
A State of Conspiracy
(2007)Ethnography of the state has long been focused on either a state’s reproduction of itself or on ‘the people’s’ resistance to it. In both cases, the state is cast as a unified, holistic identity that exists in diametric ...