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 Power of Love: The Moral Use of Knowledge among the Amuesga of Central Peru
1st Edition
By Fernando Santos-Granero
March 31, 2021
An exploration of the moral use of knowledge among the Amuesga of Central Peru....
The Work of the Gods in Tikopia: Second Edition
1st Edition
By Raymond Firth
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 ...
Time and Social Structure and Other Essays
1st Edition
By Meyere Fortes
March 31, 2021
Time and Social Structure and Other Essays...
Tribal Innovators: Tswana Chiefs and Social Change 1795-1940
1st Edition
By Isaac Schapera
March 31, 2021
This book is a completely revised version of a study published in 1943. That study, entitled Tribal Legislation among the Tswana of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, dealt with the role of chiefs as agents of social change and, in particular, with the changes they brought about by making new laws. It ...
Two Studies of Kinship in London
1st Edition
Edited
By Raymond Firth
March 31, 2021
In 1947 members of the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics, under the leadership of Professor Firth, made a study of kinship in a South London borough. More recently, to provide comparative material, Professor Garigue investigated kinship patterns among Italian immigrants ...
Uncertainties in Peasant Farming: A Colombian Case
1st Edition
By Sutti Ortiz
March 31, 2021
This book examines the life and historical background of the Paez peasants of Colombia and their relationship with the land, including issues of tenure, inheritance and the allocation of resources....
West Indian Migration: The Monserrat Case
1st Edition
By Stuart B. Philpott
March 31, 2021
West Indian Migration...
White Nile Arabs: Political Leadership and Economic Change Volume 53
1st Edition
By Abbas Mohamed
March 31, 2021
This book is an account of the changing social and political structure of the Hassaniya and Hissinat, two Sudanese Arabic speaking tribes inhabiting the northern part of the White Nile Province in the Sudan. The account is based on field research over 15 months, between June 1969 and November 1970,...
Contingent Citizens: Professional Aspiration in a South African Hospital
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Hull
April 18, 2019
Contingent Citizens examines the ambiguous state of South Africa’s public sector workers and the implications for contemporary understandings of citizenship. It takes us inside an ethnography of the professional ethic of nurses in a rural hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, shaped by a deep history of ...
Work, Sleep, Repeat: The Abstract Labour of German Management Consultants
1st Edition
By Felix Stein
April 18, 2019
Work, Sleep, Repeat is a fascinating account of the work regime of German management consultants. Examining one of the most sought-after – and secretive – graduate professions, the book provides a first-hand account of the boardroom culture of Europe’s strongest economy. Analyzing how knowledge and...
Somali, Muslim, British: Striving in Securitized Britain
1st Edition
By Giulia Liberatore
December 27, 2018
Somalis are one of the most chastised Muslim communities in Europe. Depicted in the news as victims of female genital mutilation, perpetrators of gang violence, or more recently, as radical Islamists, Somalis have been cast as a threat to social cohesion, national identity, and security in Britain ...
Cooperation in Chinese Communities: Morality and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles Stafford, Ellen R. Judd, Eona Bell
December 13, 2018
When humans cooperate, what are the social and psychological mechanisms that enable them to do so successfully? Is cooperativeness something natural for humans, built in to our species over the course of evolution, or rather something that depends on cultural learning and social interaction? This ...