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 M. G. Swift
March 31, 2021
First published in 1939 and long out of print, this book remains unique as the only full and detailed account by a social anthropologist of a complete pagan Polynesian ritual cycle. This new single-volume edition omits some of the Tikopia vernacular texts, but includes a new theoretical ...
By Darryl Forde
March 31, 2021
Marriage and the Family among the Yako in South-Eastern Nigeria...
By S. M. Salim
March 31, 2021
Dr Salim, of Bagdad University, spent two years amongst the remarkable tribal peoples who inhabit the great marshes of the lower Euphrates. He describes their social and economic organization and discusses on the one hand the process by which people with bedouin traditions and values have adapted ...
By Philip Staniford
March 31, 2021
This study of a substantial Japanese immigrant community in Brazil concentrates on its development of a political organization to cope with internal problems of co-operation and conflict and to deal with the outside world of Brazilian politicians and merchants. After many early troubles the ...
By Derek Freedman
March 31, 2021
The Iban or the Sea Dayaks of Sarawak have probably been the best known of the indigenous peoples of Borneo for well over a century. Much has been written about them, but until the results of Dr Freeman's field research were published by the Government of Sarawak and by Her Majesty's Stationery ...
By Edmund Leach
March 31, 2021
Social and Economic Organization of the Rowanduz Kurds...
By Ju-K'ang Tien
March 31, 2021
Initially published in 1953, The Chinese of Sarawak, A Study of Social Structure, is the study of the social, economic and political organization of the Chinese Community during the author's visit of thirteen months in 1948 and 1949. Much of the material was obtained from personal interviews, as ...
By Isaac Schapera
March 31, 2021
The Ethnic Composition of Tswana Tribes...
By Robin Fox
March 31, 2021
This is an unusual excursion into American Indian culture history by a British social anthropologist. It examines theories of the development of different Pueblo social structures, with particular attention to Eggan. From a detailed re-analysis of the evidence and a consideration of material from ...
By Judith Djamour
March 31, 2021
This book is an anthropologist's field study of the new court set up in Singapore to deal with matrimonial suits (chiefly divorce) among Muslims. The study is based on careful observation of the court in action, and analyses in detail the relationship between the reformist aims of the new law and ...
By E. E. Evans-Pritchard
March 31, 2021
The Political System of the Anuak of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan...
By Fernando Santos-Granero
March 31, 2021
An exploration of the moral use of knowledge among the Amuesga of Central Peru....