The thesis, supervised by Jean Lafontaine, focussed on migration from the Comoro Islands near Madagascar, to Zanzibar and the East African Swahili coast, between the 1830s and the 1970s. Comorians had shared a common history and culture with the Swahili for many centuries; in co…
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This thesis represents the most detailed investigation into English royal funeral ceremonies 1570-1625 yet undertaken. It builds on earlier scholarship dealing with the French royal funeral and with the social history of death and burial in early modern England. When gathering m…
This research is a study of food and identity among the Uyghur, a Turkic-speaking Muslim people who live in the north-western region of Xinjiang (Chinese Central Asia) and are today one of the largest minorities in the People's Republic of China. It is based on fieldwork carried…
This thesis deals primarily with two groups of people in the Dande region of the Zambezi Valley, the Korekore and the Tande, a sub-group of the Tavara. The ruling royal lineages of these people claim descent from ancestors, known as mhondoro, who are believed to control the fert…
This thesis explores a new form of urban public place-multifunctional venues called 'pay-per-minute cafes', 'public living rooms', or 'anti-cafes'. Charged by the minute and provided with free wifi and access to kitchen facilities, visitors of such spaces are entitled to use the…
In the cities of the South, water services in neighbourhoods of the poor are often obtained through self-managed organizations. This thesis aims to analyse the way in which these communitarian organizations influence the pattern of urban water governance. I define water governan…
This thesis explores how 'public space' has become both a site in which, and a process through which, new forms of democracy are being negotiated in Bogotá, Colombia. This city has been cited as a 'global best practice' example of urban governance and planning for the way that i…
Little research has been devoted to studying the interconnections between the ambiguous border identities along the so-called ‘Celtic fringe’ in the UK. It is important to explore whether, in the new context of the devolved Welsh and Scottish states, people resident in the borde…
This thesis is a sociological study of Quakers in Ireland that investigates the impact that sectarianism has had on identity construction within the Religious Society of Friends. My research highlights the complex identities of individual Friends in respect of culture, national …
This thesis is a study of the interaction of créolisation and domination with the process of cultural identity formation in Réunion. Réunionese identity remained remarkably stable throughout the era of French rule and laws rather than developing through a succession of alteratio…
A relatively large number of studies have been dona on identity and its role in personalty functioning. A similarly large number of studies have been carried out on foreign students from different countries different host countries. But none has been undertaken on west African s…
This study explores the possible influence of the media on teenagers’ constructions of gendered identities, with a specific focus on drinking alcohol and engaging in sexual/romantic relationships. Understanding the factors underlying alcohol consumption and sexual activity in th…
This thesis examines a variety of theoretical issues relating to ethnicity, multiculturalism and racism in New Zealand. It is argued that whilst the country’s history has been replete with anti-Asiatic racisms, it is necessary to transcend the timeless notion of racism as colour…
This thesis concerns the people of Umeda village, one of the four villages which make up the Waina-Sowanda Census district of the West Sepik district of New Guinea. The thesis falls into three major parts. In the first part (Chapters 1 and 2) the major features of the social str…
This thesis applies ethnographic description and anthropological interpretation to a British pottery factory. It shows that the workforce is highly differentiated and that there are diverse loyalties and interests within it; these emerge from differences in sex, training, age, s…
In recent years, flamenco has been consolidated as a prominent symbol of regional identity in Andalusia, the southernmost region of Spain. In the late 1970s, Spain began to decentralise into seventeen autonomous regions. As a result, each region has been encouraged to foreground…
In this thesis my object is to describe the process of interracial marriage between Pakehas and Maoris in Auckland and to relate this to aspects of the relations between the races in the community. In the first part I outline a typology of mixed marriage in terms of which I disc…
By the end of the Seventeenth century, when the Dutchsettlement at the Cape was already firmly established, and thefoundation had thus been laid for the present politicaldominance of the white man in the country, Africa south of theKunene Okavango and Zambesi Rivers was inhabite…
This thesis represents part of my Ethnological research carries out in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in the years 1926 and 1927. After having worked for three months in the area between the White and Blue Niles, mainly amongst the Ingassana People of the Tabi Hills, and later for som…