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.
Space and Society in Central Brazil: A Panará Ethnography
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Ewart
November 21, 2013
Hailed once as ‘giants of the Amazon’, Panará people emerged onto a world stage in the early 1970s. What followed is a remarkable story of socio-demographic collapse, loss of territory, and subsequent recovery. Reduced to just 79 survivors in 1976, Panará people have gone on to recover and reclaim ...
Ordinary Ethics in China
1st Edition
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By Charles Stafford
February 14, 2013
Drawing on a wide range of anthropological case studies, this book focuses on ordinary ethics in contemporary China. The book examines the kinds of moral and ethical issues that emerge (sometimes almost unnoticed) in the flow of everyday life in Chinese communities.How are schoolchildren judged to ...
Industrial Work and Life: An Anthropological Reader
1st Edition
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By Massimiliano Mollona, Geert De Neve, Jonathan Parry
December 01, 2009
Industrial Work and Life: An Anthropological Reader is a comprehensive anthropological overview of industrialisation in both Western and non-Western societies. Based on contemporary and historical ethnographic material, the book unpacks the 'world of industry' in the context of the shop floor, the ...
The Individualization of Chinese Society
1st Edition
By Yunxiang Yan
November 01, 2009
Chinese society has seen phenomenal change in the last 30 years. Two of the most profound changes have been the rise of the individual in both public and private spheres and the consequent individualisation of Chinese society itself. Yet, despite China's recent dramatic entrance into global ...
Questions of Anthropology
1st Edition
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By Rita Astuti, Jonathan Parry, Charles Stafford
July 01, 2007
Anthropology today seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. Questions of Anthropology brings these issues back to the centre of anthropological concerns.Individual essays explore birth, death and sexuality, puzzles about the ...
Essays on Cultural Transmission
1st Edition
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By Maurice Bloch
July 01, 2005
This book brings together recent work by Maurice Bloch which explores the highly controversial territory between the cognitive and social sciences. The essays are of broad, theoretical interest and aim to combine naturalistic approaches to cognition with a recognition and respect for the cultural ...
Between China and Europe: Person, Culture and Emotion in Macao
1st Edition
By João de Pina-Cabral
June 01, 2005
From the mid-1500s to December 1999, Macao was the longest-standing site of economic, religious and political contact between the Chinese and European worlds. Yet this surprising capacity for survival has resulted, ironically, form the very weakness of the Portuguese presence. In particular, since ...
Chinese Sociologics: An Anthropological Account of the Role of Alienation in Social Reproduction
1st Edition
By P. Steven Sangren
January 01, 2000
This volume explores the links between individuals, families, communities and the state in China through ritual and myth....
The Performance of Gender: An Anthropology of Everyday Life in a South Indian Fishing Village
1st Edition
By Cecilia Busby
January 01, 2000
The Performance of Gender presents a vivid description of everyday life in order to explore the concept of performance for an anthropology of gender. A detailed and evocotive account of the lives of men and women in a South Indian fishing community reveals new ways of framing gender relations, the ...
Arguments with Ethnography: Comparative Approaches to History, Politics and Religion Volume 70
1st Edition
By Ioan Lewis
January 01, 1999
A critique of the globalisation of the culture principle, arguing that theory is dependent on the actual study of peoples....
Conceiving Persons: Ethnographies of Procreation, Fertility and Growth Volume 68
1st Edition
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By Peter Loizos
January 01, 1999
This volume provides an international analysis of the core metaphors and practices of human sexual and social reproduction in their personal, social and cosmological contexts....
Kinship and Marriage Among the Anlo Ewe: Volume 37
1st Edition
By G. K. Nukunya
January 01, 1999
Dr Nukunya is one of the few Africans who have worked as trained anthropologists among their own people. His book is a study of the Anlo, the most numerous of the Ewe peoples who are divided between Ghana and Togo. Their descent is remarkable in that a patrilineal ideology is balanced by unusually ...