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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 ...
Kinship and belonging in the ʻland of strangersʼ : an ethnography of Caithness, North Scotland
(The University of Edinburgh, 2009)
This thesis is concerned with the heart of Caithness, the northernmost region of
mainland Scotland. Based on 18 months participant observation in the coastal village
of Lybster and the surrounding area, it explores ...
Ordinary crisis? Kinship in Botswana’s time of AIDS
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-11-25)
This thesis demonstrates that all of the practices which define and produce the
Tswana family involve dimensions of risk, conflict, and crisis – glossed as dikgang
(sing. kgang) – that also threaten to undo it. Dikgang ...
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 ...
Kinship, state, and ritual: Jugendweihe – a secular coming-of-age ritual in socialist and post-socialist Eastern Germany
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-28)
This thesis uses the secular coming-of-age ritual, Jugendweihe (‘youth consecration’), as a
locus for exploring the ways kinship and politics in Germany are complexly intertwined.
Although Jugendweihe emerged in the ...
Geometry of blessing: embodiment, relatedness, and exorcism amongst Ethiopian Orthodox Christians in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-11-28)
This thesis is about kinship, neighbourliness, sainthood, fasting and exorcism among
Orthodox Christians in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The uncertainties of providing for oneself and
one’s family in the city make people deeply ...
Becoming middle class: kinship, personhood, and social mobility in the central Philippines
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-11-28)
This thesis is an intimate portrait of kinship, personhood, and social mobility in the
central Philippines. Through the story of a sibling set that came of age after the
Second World War, their kin, and neighbours, it ...