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 Art of Anthropology: Essays and Diagrams
1st Edition
By Alfred Gell
January 01, 1999
The Art of Anthropology collects together the most influential of Gell's writings, which span the past two decades, with a new introductory chapter written by Gell. The essays vividly demonstrate Gell's theoretical and empirical interests and his distinctive contribution to several key areas of ...
Ritual, History and Power: Selected Papers in Anthropology
1st Edition
By Maurice Bloch
January 01, 1989
This volume provides a collection of some of Maurice Bloch's most important work, including influential essays on power, hierarchy, death and fertility....
Legal Institutions in Manchu China: A Sociologial Analysis Revised Edition Volume 24
1st Edition
By Sybille Sprenkel
January 01, 1977
Mrs van der Sprenkel was led to undertake this journey by her experiences while living in China. lt is a detailed sociological analysis of the whole complex of legal and quasi-legal institutions during the Manchu period. Using a wide range of source material, Mrs van der Sprenkel discusses both the...
Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure
1st Edition
By E. R. Leach
January 01, 1973
Political Systems of Highland Burma...
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 ...