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    Making of the merchant middle class in Sri Lanka : a small town ethnography 

    Heslop, Luke Alexander (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 

    Masson, Kimberley (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 ...

    Ethnographic account of fur in generation, class, and inheritance in Krakow, Poland 

    Magee, Siobhan Helen (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 ...

    Ordinary crisis? Kinship in Botswana’s time of AIDS 

    Reece, Koreen May (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 ...

    Geometry of blessing: embodiment, relatedness, and exorcism amongst Ethiopian Orthodox Christians in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 

    Malara, Diego Maria (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 ...

    Kinship, state, and ritual: Jugendweihe – a secular coming-of-age ritual in socialist and post-socialist Eastern Germany 

    Wesser, Grit (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 ...

    Becoming middle class: kinship, personhood, and social mobility in the central Philippines 

    Cruz, Resto I Sirios (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 ...

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