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.
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...
The Social Practice of Symbolisation: An Anthropological Analysis
1st Edition
By Ivo Strecker
December 13, 2021
The Social Practice of Symbolisation...
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 ...
Akokoaso: A Survey of a Gold Coast Village
1st Edition
By W. H. Beckett
March 31, 2021
Initially published in 1943. Akokoaso is a small village in the central province of the Gold Coast Colony, in the heart of the cocoa country. In this study the author presents his survey directed at the Gold Coast 'Middletown' during the period of 1932 to 5. The report covers the village and its ...
Beyond the Village: Local Politics in Madang, Papua New Guinea
1st Edition
By Louise Morauta
March 31, 2021
A study of how a district of Papua New Guinea dealt with the new political institutions established in the last years of colonial rule....
Changing Lapps: A Study in Culture Relations in Northernmost Norway
1st Edition
By Gutorm Gjessing
March 31, 2021
Changing Lapps A Study in Culture Relations in Northernmost Norway is a study of culture contact between the Saami and the Scandinavians, chiefly Norwegians, in an historical perspective. This study is based primarily on literary sources and official records supplemented by field work. In order to ...
Choice and Change: Essays in Honour of Lucy Mair
1st Edition
Edited
By John Davis
March 31, 2021
This volume in honour of Professor Mair reflects the range of her interests, and those of the Department in which she taught, in many areas of social anthropology, for it reports on research in Africa, Asia and the Mediterranean, on the tensions between tradition and modernity, between the ...
Communication, Social Structure and Development in Rural Malaysia: A Study of Kampung Kuala Bera
1st Edition
By William Wilder
March 31, 2021
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, ...
Forest Traders: A Socio-Economic Study of the Hill Pandaram
1st Edition
By Brian Morris
March 31, 2021
The first ethnographic study of a community with structured trading relationships, the nomadic forest community of the Hill Pandarm....
Gods on Earth: The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre
1st Edition
By Peter van der Veer
March 31, 2021
A detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues that religious values CAN reflect political and economic processes....
Housekeeping among Malay Peasants
1st Edition
By Rosemary Firth
March 31, 2021
Initially published in 1966. A study of the social and economic conditions of a small fishing village in Kelantan, on the north-east coast of Malay. The study, from August 1939 to July 1940 is based on collaborations with the author's husband's investigations explores how the Kelantan people ...
Indigenous Political Systems of West Malaya: Revised Edition
1st Edition
By J. M. Gullick
March 31, 2021
An analysis of the political organization of the traditional government of the Malay Sultans before the introduction of British rule in 1874....