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Do Sheep Make Good Humans?
(2017)My paper will begin with a (very) brief historical survey of the well-known tradition – that of primatology – by which Western science has used apes and monkeys to define and refine its understanding of Homo sapiens. I ... -
The once and future cathedral
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This is an ethnographic case study, tracking the course of arguments about the future of a city’s central iconic building, damaged following a major earthquake sequence. The thesis plots this as a social drama and examines ... -
Overseas and New Zealand Trends in Burials and Cremations
(University of Canterbury. School of Language, Social and Political SciencesUniversity of Canterbury. SociologyUniversity of Canterbury. Sociology and Anthropology, 2016) -
Women's Voices: Solace and social innovation in the aftermath of the 2010 Christchurch earthquakes
(University of Canterbury. School of Language, Social and Political SciencesUniversity of Canterbury. SociologyUniversity of Canterbury. Sociology and Anthropology, 2015)The Canterbury earthquakes and the rebuild are generation-defining events for twenty-first century Aotearoa/ New Zealand. This article uses an actor network approach to explore 32 women’s narratives of being shaken ... -
Taking a sociological approach to oppression in the neoliberal human services workplace : the practice gains
(2013)Workplace bullying has become internationally recognised as a major and costly problem. Meta-analyses generally suggest that around 10-20% of the workforce experience moderate bullying in any one year. The problem appears ... -
Interspecies Intersections: Ethnoprimatology and Ethnoelephantology
(2014)Animals play an integral role in the story of human civilization, and there is a long history in Anthropology of thinking about intersections between humans and other animals, particularly as objects that are good to eat, ... -
The Limits of Humanism in an Era of Ecological Crisis
(2016)At a time when earth system scientists are suggesting that the disruptive ecological agency of humanity has reached geological proportions, social theorists are vigorously questioning the intellectually constructed chasms ... -
Donor conception and its impact on family constructs – the views and experiences of donor-conceived persons
(University of Canterbury, 2017)The increasing number of people seeking and accessing assisted reproductive technologies, and the resultant emergence of changing family forms, demand an understanding of the needs and experiences of donor-conceived persons ... -
Elephants as Persons, Affective Apprenticeship, and Fieldwork with Nonhuman Informants in Nepal
(2017)In this account of interspecies intimacy in the enclaved institution of the Nepali elephant stable, I explore not-just-human figurations of personhood and argue for the methodological inclusion of nonhuman informants as ... -
Interspecies Care in a Hybrid Institution
(Rachel Carson Center, 2017)Piers Locke challenges the presuppositions of an anthropological education delimited in narrowly humanist-cultural terms. Recognizing elephants as moral actors in the institutional space of the elephant stable, he reconceives ... -
"Once you move, it's a different story" : the meaning of home for 1.5 generation Afghan women of refuge background living in Christchurch, New Zealand..
(University of Canterbury, 2017)While some scholarship on refugee youth has focussed on leaving a place that is typically considered ‘home,’ there has been little attention to what ‘home’ means to them and how this is negotiated in the country of ... -
Patronage and community agency in early Christian iconography : the evidence from three Tunisian mosaics.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This thesis applies a holistic approach to analyse the iconography of three early Christian Tunisian mosaics. These fifth-century monuments comprise the baptism font located in the Felix basilica, in Demna, and the ... -
“I’ll tell me Ma’ when I come home” : female Irish migration to Christchurch, New Zealand from 2000-2016.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This study looks at the contemporary migration journey of eight women from the Republic of Ireland from 2000 to 2016, to Christchurch, New Zealand through an oral history methodology. It aims to explore the idea that every ... -
Canterbury railways : full steam ahead : the provincial railways of Canterbury, 1863-76.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)The broad-gauge Canterbury Railways are considered unanimously by New Zealand historians as the origins of the modern-day railway network in New Zealand. Built by the Canterbury Provincial Government in 1863 to relieve ... -
Children behind bars: an analysis of the implementation gap between law and practice of child detention in the Philippines
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This thesis examines the policy implementation gap between the Philippines’ legal framework and the reality of its current practices in dealing with its detained children when in conflict with the law. The Philippines ... -
Cross purposes: Frankish levantine perceptions of gender and female participation in the crusades, 1147-1254
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Though numerous historians have studied the participation of women in the Levantine crusades during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, few have investigated the trends in gender perceptions within the Latin states. ... -
The paradoxes of strict implication
(University of Canterbury, 1952)The problem in logic with which the present work is concerned has its roots in the Principia Mathematica of Whitehead and Russell. The authors of that work define 'p implies q' as 'It is not the case that p is true and q ...
