Browsing Social Anthropology thesis and dissertation collection by Title
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‘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 ... -
The silence of Great Zimbabwe: contested landscapes and the power of heritage
(The University of Edinburgh, 2003) -
The single woman in Accra, Ghana
(The University of Edinburgh, 1985) -
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 ... -
Statistical estimation for asymptotic regression models and the derivation of such models in a new theory for racial intermixture
(The University of Edinburgh, 1964) -
Status of women in an Āzarbāyjāni village (Iran) with special reference to carpet manufacture
(The University of Edinburgh, 1981)The thesis attempts to examine the general determinants of women's status in Doniq, a muslim village in North West Iran. The main theme of the study is the effect of development prog¬ rammes and work on women's social ... -
Stories of Home: Generation, Memory, and Displacement among Jaffna Tamils and Jaffna Muslims
(2006)The Sri Lankan civil war has been ongoing for over twenty years. Fought out in the civilian areas of the North and East of Sri Lanka, between the Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) it ... -
Study of a West Sepik people, New Guinea, with special reference to their system of beliefs, kinship and marriage, and principles of thought
(The University of Edinburgh, 1980) -
Study of some of the social factors influencing labour productivity in coal mines
(The University of Edinburgh, 1962) -
Study of the vital statistics of New Zealand with a life-table for the years 1891-1896
(The University of Edinburgh, 1903)