Theses - Social Anthropology
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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 ... -
Fragments of the Prosperous Age: Living with Heritage and Treasure in Contemporary China
(2019-01-26)This thesis studies contemporary China’s heritage boom phenomenon as experienced through the everyday lives of antiquarian communities (collectors, antique dealers etc.) and heritage professionals in and around Beijing. ...
