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 Peter Loizos
January 01, 1999
This volume provides an international analysis of the core metaphors and practices of human sexual and social reproduction in their personal, social and cosmological contexts....
By G. K. Nukunya
January 01, 1999
Dr Nukunya is one of the few Africans who have worked as trained anthropologists among their own people. His book is a study of the Anlo, the most numerous of the Ewe peoples who are divided between Ghana and Togo. Their descent is remarkable in that a patrilineal ideology is balanced by unusually ...
By Alfred Gell
January 01, 1999
The Art of Anthropology collects together the most influential of Gell's writings, which span the past two decades, with a new introductory chapter written by Gell. The essays vividly demonstrate Gell's theoretical and empirical interests and his distinctive contribution to several key areas of ...
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By R. Feinberg, K. A. Watson-Gegeo
January 01, 1996
An ethnographic exploration of the rise of new forms of leadership at community and national levels with islanders are synthesising traditional and Western models....
By Andre Beteille
January 01, 1991
Society and Politics in India...
By Alan Elliott
January 01, 1990
Chinese Spirit-Medium Cults in Singapore...
By Christina Toren
January 01, 1990
Analyses Fijian hierarchy and its constitution in everyday ritual behaviour....
By Maurice Bloch
January 01, 1989
This volume provides a collection of some of Maurice Bloch's most important work, including influential essays on power, hierarchy, death and fertility....
By Ivo Strecker
January 01, 1988
The Social Practice of Symbolisation...
By William Wilder
January 01, 1982
This is an important innovative analysis of communication and society in Pahang, West Malaysia, based on fieldwork carried out in Kampung Kuala Bera. Dr Wilder is concerned with communication networks of all kinds as found in a long-established Malay village, including the uses of language, ...
By Brian Morris
January 01, 1982
The first ethnographic study of a community with structured trading relationships, the nomadic forest community of the Hill Pandarm....
By Wazir-Jahan Karim
January 01, 1981
The Ma' Betisek are a group of aborigines who live on the mangrove coastal area of Selangor in peninsular Malaysia. Dr Karim's study is mainly focused on the Ma' Betisek communities on Carey Island, off the west coast of Selangor and in particular threevillages - Sungei Sialang, Sungei Mata and ...