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.
Anthropology and Social Change: Volume 38
1st Edition
By Lucy Mair
January 01, 1971
The fourteen lectures and essays that make up this volume deal mainly, though not exclusively, with Africa, and among the topics discussed are land tenure, chieftainship, 'clientship', messianic movement, witchcraft, and 'race, tribalism and nationalism'....
Chinese Lineage and Society: Fukien and Kwantung Volume 33
1st Edition
By Maurice Freedman
January 01, 1971
This book takes the argument first set out in Lineage Organization in South-Eastern China a step further. It incorporates some of Professor Freedman's field data (gathered in the Hong Kong New Territories in 1963) and draws on a wide variety of written sources. As in his first book on the subject, ...
Essays on Social Organisation and Values
1st Edition
By Raymond Firth
January 01, 1970
In this volume Professor Firth has brought together and commented upon a number of his papers on anthropological subjects published over the last thirty years. All these essays relate in different ways to his continuing interest in the study of social process, especially in the significance within ...
Political Leadership Among Swat Pathans: Volume 19
1st Edition
By Fredrik Barth
January 01, 1970
A classic and highly influential ethnography, which explores political leadership among Swat Pathans - and which emphasizes the importance of individual decision-making for wider social processes....
Rethinking Anthropology: Volume 22
1st Edition
By E. R. Leach
January 01, 1970
A collection of brilliant and provocative essays from Edmund Leach, one of the most original voices in the social anthropological tradition....
Social Status and Power in Java
1st Edition
By L. H. Palmier
January 01, 1969
This book is a closely-observed anthropological study of life in two small Javanese towns and, at the same time, it attempts a general analysis on sociological lines of some key characteristics of contemporary Javanese society. In particular, the author's examination of the manner in which a ...