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.
Pioneers in the Tropics: The Political Organisation of Japanese in an Immigrant Community in Brazil
1st Edition
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 ...
Report on the Iban: Volume 41
1st Edition
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 ...
Social and Economic Organization of the Rowanduz Kurds
1st Edition
By Edmund Leach
March 31, 2021
Social and Economic Organization of the Rowanduz Kurds...
Society and Politics in India: Essays in a Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
By Andre Beteille
March 31, 2021
Society and Politics in India...
Take Out Hunger: Two Case Studies of Rural Development in Basutoland Volume 39
1st Edition
By S. Wallman
March 31, 2021
Development schemes are common throughout the third world. Many fail, but the reasons for failure or success are only too often not adequately studied. In this monograph two schemes started in Basutoland - now Lesotho - are intensively analysed and compared: the first, which was abandoned in 1961, ...
The Chinese of Sarawak: A Study of Social Structure
1st Edition
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 ...
The Earth Shakers of Madagascar: An Anthropological Study of Authority, Fertility and Creation
1st Edition
By Oliver Woolley
March 31, 2021
An analysis of how the complex rituals of Sahafatra culture are used to transform a once barren landscape into agricultural land....
The Ethnic Composition of Tswana Tribes
1st Edition
By Isaac Schapera
March 31, 2021
The Ethnic Composition of Tswana Tribes...
The Keresan Bridge: A Problem in Pueblo Ethnology
1st Edition
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 ...
The Muslim Matrimonial Court in Singapore
1st Edition
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 ...
The Political Structure of the Chinese Community in Cambodia: Volume 42
1st Edition
By W. E. Willmott
March 31, 2021
This field study of organized Chinese life in Cambodia, past and present, takes its place in the growing sociological literature on the overseas Chinese and, in a sense, transcends it. For it relates its conclusions on the evolution the structure of the Cambodian Chinese community to the evidence ...
The Political System of the Anuak of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
1st Edition
By E. E. Evans-Pritchard
March 31, 2021
The Political System of the Anuak of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan...