Theses - Social Anthropology
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Making ministers, making Methodism: an anthropological study of an English religious denomination.
(2000-10-24)This study employs the methods of social anthropology to analyse the social and cultural dynamics of contemporary English Methodism. My initial premise is that a key aspect of Methodism is the holding together of the ... -
Carving the spirits of the wood: an enquiry into Trobriand materialisations
(2013-10-08)This thesis is a study of the role of material forms as mediators of cross-cultural encounters in the Trobriand Islands. It is based on eighteen months of ethnographic research in Kiriwina and other parts of the Massim ... -
Rubber tappers of the Upper Juruá River, Brazil: the making of a forest peasant economy
(1993-03-16)This thesis studies the forest labour process of seringueiros (rubber tappers) in the contemporary Amazon. It investigates labour processes from a Marxist anthropological perspective, focusing on value and exploitation on ...
