Browsing Social Anthropology thesis and dissertation collection by Sponsor "Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)"
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Contesting racism: locating racist discourse through discourses on racism in an Irish working class neighbourhood
(The University of Edinburgh, 2012-06-29)This is a study of the politics of identity in a working class setting in Galway on Ireland's west coast. It is based on twenty one months of fieldwork using ethnographic research techniques, and several years of library ... -
Ethnographic account of fur in generation, class, and inheritance in Krakow, Poland
(The University of Edinburgh, 2013-11-27)In this thesis I describe the complex uses and symbolic resonances of fur clothing in Krakow. During my fieldwork, fur emerged as an object that was at once quotidian and evocative of an uncommonly weighty set of ... -
Ethnography of San: minority recognition and voice in Botswana
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-28)Over the last sixty years anthropological interest in San has focused on their status as hunter-gatherers and, more recently, as an economically and socially marginalised minority group. In this thesis, I examine the ... -
‘For the good of the breed’: care, ethics, and responsibility in pedigree dog breeding
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-05)This thesis examines how the ethics of caring for pedigree dogs differ in the contexts of dog showing and veterinary practice. By highlighting conflicts around the shared use of ‘ordinary language’, I show how tensions ... -
Fragile bonds: an ethnographic investigation of marriage-making amongst Muslims in Cairo
(The University of Edinburgh, 2013-11-27)This thesis is based upon ethnographic fieldwork on the process of becoming married in Cairo. It focuses specifically upon the experiences of Cairene Muslims, and centres on the profound sense of anxiety and uncertainty ... -
Irregular sub-Saharan migrants in Morocco: illegality, immobility, uncertainty and ‘adventure’ in Rabat
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-28)As a result of European externalization of the politics of migration, Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries like Morocco are increasingly co-opted to deter asylum-seekers and other migrants. These latter, criminalized ... -
Making of the merchant middle class in Sri Lanka : a small town ethnography
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-07-01)This thesis is an ethnographic study of middlemen and business families in a commercial town in central Sri Lanka. What I present is based on almost two years of ethnographic fieldwork, in which I followed entrepreneurial ... -
Memory of generations: time, narrative and kinship in Damascus, Syria
(The University of Edinburgh, 2013-07-02)‘Bless you, may you bury me’ is a common refrain among older people in the Syrian capital Damascus, directed especially towards children and young adults when they help with daily tasks or provide joy by their play or ... -
Not yet at peace: disappearances and the politics of loss in Nepal
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-07-01)The return of a body, alive (sas, lit. ‘breath’) or dead (las) is a recurring demand of relatives of the disappeared in Nepal. Hundreds of people were disappeared by state security forces or abducted by the Maoists during ... -
Ordinary security: an ethnography of security practices and perspectives in Tel Aviv
(The University of Edinburgh, 2009)Anthropological approaches to contexts of violence and conflict often focus on the exceptional and extraordinary moment of violence or its memory, leaving little room for the ordinary ways in and through which much conflict ... -
(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 ... -
Tactics of diabetes control: Turkish immigrant experiences with chronic illness in Berlin, Germany.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2009)This thesis explores Turkish migrants’ practices of diabetes care in Germany. Health statistics frequently identify minority groups as vulnerable to chronic illness and Turkish-origin Germans are said to be more likely ... -
This land: politics, authority and morality after land reform in Zimbabwe
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-28)This thesis examines people’s attempts to (re)construct belonging and authority after rapid socio-political and economic change. It is a study of the lives of those living alongside each other in a new resettlement area ... -
Transnational conceptions: displacement, maternity, and onward migration among Somalis in Nairobi, Kenya
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-07-01)This thesis provides an anthropological account of the relationship between experiences of migration and reproduction among Somalis living in Nairobi, Kenya, specifically the complex relationship between motherhood and ... -
Transplanting education: a case study of the production of 'American-style' doctors in a non-American setting
(The University of Edinburgh, 2012-11-28)This thesis examines the transfer of an American pedagogical model to the Arabian Gulf against the wider context of the globalisation of higher education. Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar is used as a case study ... -
Weathering relationships: the intra-action of people with climate in Himalayan India
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-28)Weather – cold, wet, hot and windy – pervades life, material and social. So present and obvious as to provide a challenge for research, material though ephemeral too, weather breaks boundaries and refuses categorisation. ... -
Zhabdrung's Legacy : state transformation, law and social values in contemporary Bhutan
(The University of Edinburgh, 2002-12-04)Based on ethnographic research in Bhutan and among Bhutanese living in Nepal, this thesis examines the reach of law in everyday life in contemporary Bhutan. Drawing on inter-linked themes of social values drawn from Buddhist ...