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.
Kinship and Economic Organisation in Rural Japan
1st Edition
By Chie Nakane
March 31, 2021
Kinship and Economic Organisation in Rural Japan...
Kinship and Marriage in a New Guinea Village
1st Edition
By H. Ian Hogbin
March 31, 2021
The economic and political systems, legal code and religious beliefs of the people of the New Guinea village of Busama were analysed by H. Ian Hogbin in his earlier work, Transformation Scene (1951). In this new study founded on field work carried out at intervals over a seven year period, he is ...
Knowledge of Illness in a Sepik Society: A Study of the Gnau, New Guinea Volume 52
1st Edition
By Gilbert Lewis
March 31, 2021
Illness is a matter of concern in every society. Social responses to it depend both on the nature of the illness and on cultural interpretation of its significance. This study of the occurrence, recognition and explanation of illness amongst the Gnau makes use of its author's dual training in ...
Land Tenure in Ibo Village in South-Eastern Nigeria
1st Edition
By M. M. Green
March 31, 2021
Land Tenure in Ibo Village in South-Eastern Nigeria...
Leadership and Change in the Western Pacific
1st Edition
Edited
By R. Feinberg, K. A. Watson-Gegeo
March 31, 2021
An ethnographic exploration of the rise of new forms of leadership at community and national levels with islanders are synthesising traditional and Western models....
Lineage Organisation in South-Eastern China
1st Edition
By Maurice Freedman
March 31, 2021
Lineage Organisation in South-Eastern China...
Ma' Betisek Concepts of Living Things: Volume 54
1st Edition
By Wazir-Jahan Karim
March 31, 2021
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 ...
Making Sense of Hierarchy: Cognition as Social Process in Fiji: Fijian Hierarchy and Its Constitution in Everyday Ritual Behavior
1st Edition
By Christina Toren
March 31, 2021
Analyses Fijian hierarchy and its constitution in everyday ritual behaviour....
Malay Kinship and Marriage in Singapore
1st Edition
By Judith Djamour
March 31, 2021
Dr Djamour spent two years in Singapore, both in the city and in a Malay fishing village, and her first-hand account draws a lively and sympathetic picture of behaviour within the family and between kinsmen. It is nonetheless an important contribution to social anthropology and discusses, as its ...
Malay Peasant Society in Jelebu
1st Edition
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 ...
Marriage and the Family among the Yako in South-Eastern Nigeria
1st Edition
By Darryl Forde
March 31, 2021
Marriage and the Family among the Yako in South-Eastern Nigeria...
Marsh Dwellers of the Euphrates Delta
1st Edition
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 ...