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.
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By Mathijs Pelkmans, Harry Walker
December 26, 2022
This book focuses on comparison in anthropology, turning an ethnographic lens onto the diversity of comparative practice. It seeks to understand how, why and with what consequences diversely situated groups of people – many of whom operate on radically different premises to professional ...
By Denis Regnier
August 01, 2022
This book explores the prejudice against slave descendants in highland Madagascar and its persistence more than a century after the official abolition of slavery. ‘Unclean people’ is a widespread expression in the southern highlands of Madagascar, and refers to people of alleged slave descent who ...
By Joan Metge
April 29, 2022
Until 1939 the Maori people remained an almost wholly rural community, but during and after the second world war increasing numbers of them migrated in search of work to the cities, and urban groups of Maori were established. This development has significantly affected relationships, both between ...
By Di Wu
April 29, 2022
Against the background of China's rapidly growing, and sometimes highly controversial, activities in Africa, this book is among the first of its kind to systematically document Sino-African interactions at the everyday level. Based on sixteen months of ethnographic fieldwork at two contrasting ...
By A. M. Ammar
December 13, 2021
Initially published in 1943. In A Demographic Study of an Egyptian Province (Sharquiya) Dr Ammar, an Egyptian anthropologist, raises a number of questions around the relevance of and need for accurate population statistics in field economic studies. His tables and sociological analysis ...
By Chandra Jayawardena
December 13, 2021
Conflict and Solidarity in a Guianese Plantation...
By W. H. R. Rivers
December 13, 2021
W. H. R. Rivers, who has been called 'the founder of the modern study of social organization', exerted an immense influence on his contemporaries and successors. This volume reprints three of his lectures, delivered in 1913 and first published in 1914, which provide a short and brilliant exposition...
By Thomas P. Gibson
December 13, 2021
Sacrifice and Sharing in the Philippine Highlands...
By Jeremy Boissevain
December 13, 2021
Malta's recent independence was achieved despite a confusion of internal conflicts which must appear puzzling to the outsider. Socialists and Nationalists clash both with each other, and with a Church whose authority is almost medieval. Dr Boissevain has lived for more than two years in Malta and ...
By Martin Hill
December 13, 2021
The Harambee Movement in Kenya...
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By Francisco Martinez
June 30, 2021
Through a range of ethnographic case studies focusing on the Portuguese recovery after the economic crisis, this book begins a conversation about the experience of recuperation and repair. Located in the cracks and gaps between the state and society, recuperation appears as a social and ...
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....