With over 70 volumes published since 1949, including classic works by Gell, Barth, Leach and Firth, the LSE Monographs now form one of the most prestigious series in the discipline of Anthropology. Presenting scholarly work from all branches of Social Anthropology, the series continues to build on its history with both theoretical and ethnographic studies of the contemporary world.
By Tamara Gunasekera
June 29, 2021
A comprehensive analysis of stratification in rural Sri Lanka, taking into account the hierarchies of class, status and power....
By L. H. Palmier
January 01, 1969
This book is a closely-observed anthropological study of life in two small Javanese towns and, at the same time, it attempts a general analysis on sociological lines of some key characteristics of contemporary Javanese society. In particular, the author's examination of the manner in which a ...
By W. H. Beckett
March 31, 2021
Initially published in 1943. Akokoaso is a small village in the central province of the Gold Coast Colony, in the heart of the cocoa country. In this study the author presents his survey directed at the Gold Coast 'Middletown' during the period of 1932 to 5. The report covers the village and its ...
By Louise Morauta
March 31, 2021
A study of how a district of Papua New Guinea dealt with the new political institutions established in the last years of colonial rule....
By Gutorm Gjessing
March 31, 2021
Changing Lapps A Study in Culture Relations in Northernmost Norway is a study of culture contact between the Saami and the Scandinavians, chiefly Norwegians, in an historical perspective. This study is based primarily on literary sources and official records supplemented by field work. In order to ...
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By John Davis
March 31, 2021
This volume in honour of Professor Mair reflects the range of her interests, and those of the Department in which she taught, in many areas of social anthropology, for it reports on research in Africa, Asia and the Mediterranean, on the tensions between tradition and modernity, between the ...
By Peter van der Veer
March 31, 2021
A detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues that religious values CAN reflect political and economic processes....
By Rosemary Firth
March 31, 2021
Initially published in 1966. A study of the social and economic conditions of a small fishing village in Kelantan, on the north-east coast of Malay. The study, from August 1939 to July 1940 is based on collaborations with the author's husband's investigations explores how the Kelantan people ...
By J. M. Gullick
March 31, 2021
An analysis of the political organization of the traditional government of the Malay Sultans before the introduction of British rule in 1874....
By Chie Nakane
March 31, 2021
Kinship and Economic Organisation in Rural Japan...
By M. M. Green
March 31, 2021
Land Tenure in Ibo Village in South-Eastern Nigeria...
By Maurice Freedman
March 31, 2021
Lineage Organisation in South-Eastern China...