Theses - Social Anthropology
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Transylvanian Baroque: Liberalism and its Others in Rural Romania
(2019-04-27)This thesis is an exploration of liberalism in Romania and in anthropology. Liberalism is frequently represented in contemporary anthropology as a hegemonic technocratic practice, rationalist ideology and hypocritically ... -
Printing as Practice: Innovation and Imagination in the Making of Tibetan Buddhist Sacred Texts in California
(2019-04-27)This thesis offers an exploration of how one brings a Tibetan sacred text to being — and to voice — in the unfamiliar, and perhaps unlikely, landscape of Northern California. Through 16 months’ fieldwork with a Nyingma ... -
The Labour of Love Songs: Voicing Intimacy in Somaliland
This dissertation is about the work of love songs in Hargeysa, Somaliland. In a setting where music and expressions of love are conspicuously absent from public soundscapes, I explore the lives and labour of a genre as it ... -
A Travellers' Sense of Place in the City
(2019-01-12)It is widely assumed in both popular and scholarly imaginaries that Travellers, due to their ‘nomadic mind-set’ and non-sedentary uses of land, do not have a sense of place. This thesis presents an ethnographic account of ...
