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 Fernando Santos-Granero
March 31, 2021
An exploration of the moral use of knowledge among the Amuesga of Central Peru....
By Isaac Schapera
March 31, 2021
This book is a completely revised version of a study published in 1943. That study, entitled Tribal Legislation among the Tswana of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, dealt with the role of chiefs as agents of social change and, in particular, with the changes they brought about by making new laws. It ...
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By Raymond Firth
March 31, 2021
In 1947 members of the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics, under the leadership of Professor Firth, made a study of kinship in a South London borough. More recently, to provide comparative material, Professor Garigue investigated kinship patterns among Italian immigrants ...
By Sutti Ortiz
March 31, 2021
This book examines the life and historical background of the Paez peasants of Colombia and their relationship with the land, including issues of tenure, inheritance and the allocation of resources....
By Stuart B. Philpott
March 31, 2021
West Indian Migration...
By Abbas Mohamed
March 31, 2021
This book is an account of the changing social and political structure of the Hassaniya and Hissinat, two Sudanese Arabic speaking tribes inhabiting the northern part of the White Nile Province in the Sudan. The account is based on field research over 15 months, between June 1969 and November 1970,...
By E. R. Leach
January 01, 1973
Political Systems of Highland Burma...
By E. R. Leach
January 01, 1970
A collection of brilliant and provocative essays from Edmund Leach, one of the most original voices in the social anthropological tradition....
By Fredrik Barth
January 01, 1970
A classic and highly influential ethnography, which explores political leadership among Swat Pathans - and which emphasizes the importance of individual decision-making for wider social processes....
By Giulia Liberatore
December 27, 2018
Somalis are one of the most chastised Muslim communities in Europe. Depicted in the news as victims of female genital mutilation, perpetrators of gang violence, or more recently, as radical Islamists, Somalis have been cast as a threat to social cohesion, national identity, and security in Britain ...
By Lucy Mair
January 01, 1971
The fourteen lectures and essays that make up this volume deal mainly, though not exclusively, with Africa, and among the topics discussed are land tenure, chieftainship, 'clientship', messianic movement, witchcraft, and 'race, tribalism and nationalism'....
By Yunxiang Yan
November 01, 2009
Chinese society has seen phenomenal change in the last 30 years. Two of the most profound changes have been the rise of the individual in both public and private spheres and the consequent individualisation of Chinese society itself. Yet, despite China's recent dramatic entrance into global ...