LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
About the Book Series
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.
Hierarchy and Egalitarianism: Caste, Class and Power in Sinhalese Peasant Society
1st Edition
By Tamara Gunasekera
April 30, 2025
A comprehensive analysis of stratification in rural Sri Lanka, taking into account the hierarchies of class, status and power....
How People Compare
1st Edition
Edited
By Mathijs Pelkmans, Harry Walker
August 26, 2024
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 ...
Slavery and Essentialism in Highland Madagascar: Ethnography, History, Cognition
1st Edition
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 ...
A New Maori Migration: Rural and Urban Relations in Northern New Zealand
1st Edition
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 ...
Affective Encounters: Everyday Life among Chinese Migrants in Zambia
1st Edition
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 ...
A Demographic Study of an Egyptian Province (Sharquiya)
1st Edition
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 ...
Conflict and Solidarity in a Guianese Plantation
1st Edition
By Chandra Jayawardena
December 13, 2021
Conflict and Solidarity in a Guianese Plantation...
Kinship and Social Organisation
1st Edition
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...
Sacrifice and Sharing in the Philippine Highlands: Religion and Society among the Buid of Mindoro
1st Edition
By Thomas P. Gibson
December 13, 2021
Sacrifice and Sharing in the Philippine Highlands...
Saints and Fireworks: Religion and Politics in Rural Malta
1st Edition
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 ...
The Harambee Movement in Kenya: Self-Help, Development and Education Among the Kamba of Kitui District
1st Edition
By Martin Hill
December 13, 2021
The Harambee Movement in Kenya...
Politics of Recuperation: Repair and Recovery in Post-Crisis Portugal
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...