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Milano Merfield, Annaliese (2024) The social layer: an ethnography of two cryptocurrency communities in the United States. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Wilby, Samuel (2024) On shifting grounds: agroecological relations, livelihood change, and the politics of ritual among ‘tribes’ and ‘castes’ in highland Odisha. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cabaña Alvear, Gabriela Rocío (2024) Energy as the work of nature: the quandaries of sacrificial productivism in Chiloé, south of Chile. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Giattino, Angela (2024) Epistemic ethnicity: intercultural higher education among urban Amazonian youth in Peru. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

García Briceño, Luis (2024) Walking with Jesus in indigenous Amazonia: for an anthropology of paths. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cottrell, Hannah Lucille (2023) The horizon’s limits: becoming the global middle class in two UK international schools. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Flatau, Sasha (2023) Ethical living & the salience of work: growing up in a Cacua community of Northwest Amazonia. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

González Rosas, Arturo Manuel (2023) Ethnic identity among the Ticuna in the Tres Fronteras region of the Amazonian rainforest. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gheewala Lohiya, Anishka (2023) Everyday play in mothering Krishna: rethinking devotional seva (service) and prayer in the Pushtimarg. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ramble, Charlotte (2023) An ethnography of a rural Nepalese prison: exploring inequalities and the reach and limits of state control. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Faure, Agathe Elise (2023) Movements of care: an ethnography of care relations composed by Emberá Dobidá migrants, Colombia. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sandoval Marmolejo, Ignacio Alonso (2023) Ordinary concerns: class, value, and mattering among lower-middle-class Santiaguinos. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Doherty, Jonathan Vincent (2022) Divine energies of the Balinese earth: the temple networks and territorial cults of Mount Batukau. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Tawfic, Simon (2022) The state of homelessness: fragmentation and the will to care in metropolitan England. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Watt, Connor (2022) Working through oil: skill, ethics, and masculinities in the Scottish oil and gas Industry. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Donnelly, Meghan Rose (2022) The dug-up heart: becoming a nun in the company of others. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Bhogal, Jaskiran Kaur (2022) 'Home' in Sikh polity: understandings of mīrī pīrī in contemporary Britain. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Liu, Danfeng (2021) Making Heimat in the modern world: state, Catholicism, and nature in a Bavarian village community. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Simpson, Nikita Rachel Kaur (2021) Tension: an ethnographic study of women’s mental distress in rural North India. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Spector, Branwen (2021) Uneven ground: an ethnographic study of Palestinian and settler mobility in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Herzmark, Thomas John (2021) Scales of difference: an ethnography of the family dynamics of livelihood transition, affirmative action, cultural objectification and state recognition in Andhra Pradesh, India. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Vieira, Jordan Patrick (2021) The austerity of time: living with neoliberalism, financialization, and difference in London’s Docklands. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Goodgame, Clayton Charles (2021) Custodians of descent: religion, kinship, and continuity among Palestinian Orthodox Christians. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Zidaru-Bărbulescu, Teodor (2020) Phantom trust: faith, language, and inequality in southwest Kenya. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Trotter, Lucy Ellen (2020) Performing Welshness in the Chubut Province of Patagonia, Argentina. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Zagaria, Valentina (2020) ‘Burning’ borders: migration, death and dignity in a Tunisian coastal town. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Arnavas, Chiara (2020) Under the syndicate raj: criminalization and protection in a Muslim community in New Town, Kolkata. MPhil thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Joassin, Thomas (2020) Ethics and politics of Algerian Sufi brotherhoods. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Griffin Strong, Imani (2020) Contracting change: an ethnographic study of affirmative action, entrepreneurship, and bureaucracy in Atlanta, Georgia. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Beardmore, Lewis (2020) Poisoned fruits: agriculture, ecology, and the limits to aspiration in the eastern Himalaya. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Okenwa, Doris A. (2019) Impermanent development and the pursuit of permanence: mobilising marginalisation and uncertainty towards a rightful share of Kenya’s oil. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Piña A., Gabriela (2019) The path of the senses: kinship, intimacy and sensory experience in Pehuen Mapu, Chile. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Breen, Gareth Paul (2019) Attuning to ‘the oneness’ in ‘the church in Taiwan’: an historical ethnography. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Noy, Itay (2019) Extracting a living: labour, inequality, and politics in a tribal coal mining village in India. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Bowers, Rebecca (2019) Gendered economies of extraction: seeking permanence amidst the rubble of Bengaluru’s construction industry. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dahlgren, Kari (2019) Digging deeper: precarious futures in two Australian coal mining towns. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Fengjiang, Jiazhi (2019) Grassroots philanthropy in China: work, ethics, and social change. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kohonen, Liisa K. (2019) Figuring out conflict: an ethnographic study of modernity, law, and the state in rural southwest china. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Deschenaux, Ivan (2019) The resilience of caste: Dalits, psychological essentialism, and intercaste marriage in the Himalayan foothills of Eastern Nepal. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Laws, Megan (2019) All things being equal: uncertainty, ambivalence and trust in a Namibian conservancy. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mehtta, Megnaa (2019) Conserving life: forest imaginaries and competing values in the Sundarbans forests of India. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Miguel-Lorenzo, Laura Alexandra (2018) The efficacy of the gender ‘tok’ and the Anglican sisters’ house-based response to gender violence in post-conflict Solomon Islands. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kuruüzüm, Umut (2018) Expanding war, expanding capital: contemporary capitalism in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Edwards, Michael (2018) Real change: translating salvation in Myanmar. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kauppinen, Anna-Riikka (2018) Accra's professionals: an ethnography of work and value in a West African business hub. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kuroda, Ken (2018) Visceral politics of food: the bio-moral economy of worklunch in Mumbai, India. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Tuv, Liat (2018) Talking through difference: everyday ethics across borders in an Israeli-Palestinian community. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Stadlen, Alexandra (2018) Weaving lives from violence: possibility and change for Muslim women in rural West Bengal. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lipton, Jonah (2017) Family business: work, neighbourhood life, coming of age, and death in the time of Ebola in Freetown, Sierra Leone. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Crockford, Susannah (2017) After the American dream: the political economy of spirituality in Northern Arizona, USA. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mavrodin, Corina (2017) A maverick in the making: Romania’s de-Satellization process and the Global Cold War (1953-1963). PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Chiu, Hsiao-Chiao (2017) An island of the floating world: kinship, rituals, and political-economic change in post-cold war Jinmen. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Stanford, Mark (2017) Building on shifting sands: co-operation and morality in the new Chinese co-operative movement. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Løndorf, Maja Haals (2017) Claims to orphanhood: an ethnographic investigation of childhood adversity in post-genocide Rwanda. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Wong, Magdalena (2016) Performing masculinity in peri-urban China: duty, family, society. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Tortopidou-Derieux, Kyriaki (2016) The politics of religious experience in Fifteenth-Century Europe through an East-West encounter: a re-interpretation. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Musallam, Fuad (2016) Failure and the politically possible: space, time and emotion among independent activists in Beirut, Lebanon. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Fletcher, Katharine (2016) 'The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighbourhood': community, enterprise and anti-modernity among reforming evangelical Christians in a United States city. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Diz, Agustin (2016) The afterlife of abundance: wageless life, politics, and illusion among the Guaraní of the Argentine Chaco. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Buitron, Natalia (2016) The attraction of unity: power, knowledge, and community among the Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

McIvor, Méadhbh (2016) To fulfil the law: evangelism, legal activism, and public Christianity in contemporary England. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Huang, Julia (2016) Do it yourself development: ambiguity and relational work in a Bangladesh social enterprise. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Proudfoot, Philip (2016) The living dead: revolutionary subjectivity and Syrian rebel-workers in Beirut. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Remmert, Désirée (2016) Future aspirations and life choices: a comparison of young adults in urban China and Taiwan. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Pool, Fernande Wille-Wietske (2016) The ethical life of Muslims in secular India: Islamic reformism in West Bengal. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Shuttleworth, Judy (2016) 'Keeping the lamp burning': a study of a mosque congregation in London. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Martin, Christopher (2015) Generations of migration: schooling, youth & transnationalism in the Philippines. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mezzenzana, Francesca (2015) Living through forms: similarity, knowledge and gender among the Pastaza Runa (Ecuadorian Amazon). PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Pia, Andrea (2015) The vanishing margin: an ethnography of state water provisions in the environmentally degraded Chinese countryside. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Penfield, Amy (2015) Material morality: an ethnography of value among the Sanema of Venezuelan Amazonia. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Whiteley, Johanna (2015) The ancestors remain: dynamics of matrilineal continuity in West Gao, Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Laheij, Christian (2015) A country of trial: Islamic reformism, pluralism and dispute management in Peri-Urban Northern Mozambique. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Wu, Di (2014) The everyday life of Chinese migrants in Zambia: emotion, sociality and moral interaction. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lewis, Jovan Scott (2014) Sufferer's market: sufferation and economic ethics in Jamaica. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Berthin, Michael (2014) Touch future x ROBOT: examining production, consumption, and disability at a social robot research laboratory and a centre for independent living in Japan. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hale, Tamara (2014) Mixing and its challenges: an ethnography of race, kinship and history in a village of Afro-indigenous descent in coastal Peru. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mladovsky, Philipa (2014) Social capital and enrolment in community-based health insurance in Senegal. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Milićević, Zorana (2014) Children and the benefits of gender equality: negotiating traditional and modern gender expectations in a Mexican village. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gutierrez-Garza, Ana (2013) The everyday moralities of migrant women: life and labour of Latin American domestic and sex workers in London. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mikuš, Marek (2013) What reform? Civil societies, state transformation and social antagonism in ‘European Serbia’. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Tuckett, Anna (2013) The ambiguities of documentation: migrants’ everyday encounters with Italian immigration law. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Zaki, Mohamed (2013) "And they say there aren’t any gay Arabs…": ambiguity and uncertainty in Cairo’s underground gay scenes. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Quiroz, Sitna (2013) Relating as children of God: ruptures and continuities in kinship among pentecostal Christians in the south-east of the Republic of Benin. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Grosso, Sarah (2013) Extraordinary ethics: an ethnographic study of marriage and Divorce in Ben Ali’s Tunisia. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gatmaytan, Augusto (2013) Indigenous autonomy amid counter-insurgency: cultural citizenship in a Philippine frontier. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Michelet, Aude (2013) No longer 'kings': learning to be a Mongolian person in the middle Gobi. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kraemer, Daniela (2013) Planting roots, making place: an ethnography of young men in Port Vila, Vanuatu. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Robinson, Dave (2013) Continuity, communion and the dread: the Maori Rastafari of Ruatoria, Aotearoa-New Zeland. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sheild Johansson, Clara Miranda (2013) ‘To work is to transform the land’: agricultural labour, personhood and landscape in an Andean ayllu. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Baptista Barbosa, Gustavo (2013) Non-cockfights: on doing/undoing gender in Shatila, Lebanon. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Singh, Yasna (2013) Satnami self-assertion and Dalit activism: everyday life and caste in rural Chhattisgarh (central India). PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Liberatore, Giulia (2013) Transforming the self: an ethnography of ethical change amongst young Somali Muslim women in London. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Wilde, Matt (2013) 'We shall overcome': radical populism, political morality and participatory democracy in a Venezuelan Barrio. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hann, Agnes C. E. (2013) An ethnographic study of family, livelihoods and women's everyday lives in Dakar, Senegal. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Liu, Xiaoqian (2013) The state through its mirrors : an anthropological study of a 'Respect-the-Elderly Home' in rural China at the turn of the 21st century. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Andersson, Ruben (2012) Clandestine migration and the business of bordering Europe. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Makram Ebeid, Dina (2012) Manufacturing stability: everyday politics of work in an industrial steel town in Helwan, Egypt. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Chong, Kimberly (2012) The work of financialisation: an ethnography of a global management consultancy in post-Mao China. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Bolt, Maxim (2012) Rooting production: life and labour on the settler farms of the Zimbabwean-South African border. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cant, Alanna (2012) Practising aesthetics: artisanal production and politics in a woodcarving village in Oaxaca, Mexico. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Furberg Moe, Marie Cathrine (2012) Peripheral nationhood: being Israeli in Kiryat Shemona. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Boylston, Tom (2012) The shade of the divine: approaching the sacred in an Ethiopian orthodox Christian community. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Regnier, Denis A. P. (2012) Why not marry them? History, essentialism and the condition of slave descendants among the southern Betsileo (Madagascar). PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Pes, Luca Giuseppe (2011) Building political relations: cooperation, segmentation and government in Bancoumana (Mali). PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Fang, I-Chieh (2011) Growing up and becoming independent: an ethnographic study of new generation migrant workers in China. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Bell, Eona (2011) An anthropological study of ethnicity and the reproduction of culture among Hong Kong Chinese families in Scotland. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Frantz, Elizabeth (2011) Exporting subservience: Sri Lankan women's migration for domestic work in Jordan. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Datta, Ankur (2011) The politics of place, community and recognition among Kashmiri pandit forced migrants in Jammu and Kashmir. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Chamberlain-Creangă, Rebecca A (2011) Cementing modernisation: transnational markets, language and labour tension in a Post-Soviet factory in Moldova. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Marcello, Sorrentino (2011) Development in the mountains of confusion: Guaribas under the Zero-Hunger Programme. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sapritsky, Marina (2010) Negotiating traditions: transformations of Jewish identities and community building in post-Soviet Odessa, Ukraine. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mullard, Jordan C.R (2010) Status, security and change: An ethnographic study of caste, class and religion in rural Rajasthan. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Zhang, Hui (2010) Windfall wealth and envy in three Chinese mining villages. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Boydell, Victoria Jane (2010) The social life of the Pill: An ethnography of contraceptive pill users in a central London family planning clinic. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dow, Katharine (2009) A stable environment: surrogacy and the good life in Scotland. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

de Wilde, Roeland M (2009) Opium poppy husk traders in Rajasthan: The lives and work of businessman in the contemporary Indian opium industry. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Martin, Nicolas E (2009) Politics, patronage, and debt bondage in the Pakistani Punjab. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Widger, Tom (2009) Self-harm and self-inflicted death amongst Sinhalese Buddhists in Sri Lanka: An ethnographic study. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hull, Elizabeth (2009) Status, morality and the politics of transformation: an ethnographic account of nurses in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Engebretsen, Elisabeth Lund (2008) Love in a big city: Sexuality, kinship, and citizenship amongst lala ('lesbian') women in Beijing. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Santos, Percival (2007) Inventing the public enemy: the gangster in Taiwanese society, 1991-2006. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Desai, Amit A (2007) Witchcraft, religious transformation, and Hindu nationalism in rural central India. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

McNeill, Fraser George (2007) An ethnographical analysis of HIV/AIDS in the Venda region of South Africa: Politics, peer education and music. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sumich, James Michael (2005) Elites and modernity in Mozambique. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Forbess, Alice I (2005) Democracy and miracles: Political and religious agency in a convent and village of south central Romania. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ecks, Stefan M (2003) Digesting modernity: Body, illness and medicine in Kolkata (Calcutta). PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Verardo, Barbara (2003) Rebels and devotees of Jharkhand: Social, religious and political transformations among the adivasis of northern India. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Pollen, Roseanna (2002) Bangladeshi family life in Bethnal Green. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Freeman, Luke (2001) Knowledge, education and social differentiation amongst the Betsileo of Fisakana, highland Madagascar. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Alvarez, Santiago (1999) The relationship between internally and externally generated violence in an Andean Mestizo Colombian community. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Woolley, Oliver (1998) Earth-shakers of Sahafatra: Authority, fertility, and the cult of nature in southeast Madagascar. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Schwarz, Tanya (1998) Ethiopian Jewish immigrants in Israel: Living well and "becoming deaf" in the homeland. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sholkamy, Hania Mohamed (1997) Children's health and well-being: an ethnography of an upper Egyptian village. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kindness, Leonie (1997) Witchcraft and the reproduction of wealth in southern Zambia. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Maumoon, Dunya (1996) Gender activism and the Islamic revival. MPhil thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Thomas, Philip (1996) Place, person and ancestry among the Temanambondro of southeast Madagascar. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ruud, Arild Engelsen (1995) Socio-cultural changes in rural West Bengal. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Abu Shehab, Amina Abdullah (1993) Women, Islam and modernity. MPhil thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Astuti, Rita (1991) Learning to be Vezo: the construction of the person among fishing people of western Madagascar. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Janowski, Monica Rachel Hughes (1991) Rice, work and community among the Kelabit of Sarawak, East Malaysia. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Day, Sophie (1989) Embodying spirits: village oracles and possession ritual in Ladakh, North India. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lan, David Mark (1983) Making history: spirit mediums and the guerilla war in the Dande area of Zimbabwe. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Shepherd, Gillian Marie (1982) The Comorians in Kenya: the establishment and loss of an economic niche. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gell, Antony Francis (1973) Society, ritual and symbolism in Umeda village (West Sepik District, New Guinea). PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Harre, John (1964) Maori-Pakeha mixed marriages in New Zealand. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Schapera, Isaac (1929) The tribal system in South Africa: a study of the Bushmen and the Hottentots. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Evans-Pritchard, Edward Evan (1928) The social organization of the Azande of the Bahr-el-Ghazal province of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.