Marriage and the Family among the Yako in South-Eastern Nigeria

Darryl Forde

• Paperback | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 67
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Kinship and Social Organisation

W H R Rivers

• Hardcover | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 87
• W. H. R. Rivers, who has been called 'the founder of the modern study of social organization', exerted an immense influence on his contemporaries and ... Lees meer

Chinese Sociologics

P Steven Sangren

• Paperback | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 72
• This volume explores the links between individuals, families, communities and the state in China through ritual and myth. Lees meer

Anthropology and Social Change

Lucy Mair

• Paperback | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology
• The fourteen lectures and essays that make up this volume deal mainly, though not exclusively, with Africa, and among the topics discussed are land te... Lees meer

Marsh Dwellers of the Euphrates Delta

S M Salim

• Paperback | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 60
• Dr Salim, of Bagdad University, spent two years amongst the remarkable tribal peoples who inhabit the great marshes of the lower Euphrates. He describ... Lees meer

The Art of Anthropology

Alfred Gell

• Hardcover | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 47
• The Art of Anthropology collects together the most influential of Gell's writings, which span the past two decades, with a new introductory chapter wr... Lees meer

Sacrifice and Sharing in the Philippine Highlands

Thomas P Gibson

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Rethinking Anthropology

E R Leach

• Paperback | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 22
• A collection of brilliant and provocative essays from Edmund Leach, one of the most original voices in the social anthropological tradition. Lees meer

Housekeeping among Malay Peasants

Rosemary Firth

• Hardcover | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 63
• Initially published in 1966. A study of the social and economic conditions of a small fishing village in Kelantan, on the north-east coast of Malay. T... Lees meer

The Power of Love

Fernando Santos-Granero

• Paperback | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology
• An exploration of the moral use of knowledge among the Amuesga of Central Peru. Lees meer

The Keresan Bridge

Robin Fox

• Paperback | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 61
• This is an unusual excursion into American Indian culture history by a British social anthropologist. It examines theories of the development of diffe... Lees meer

Political Leadership Among Swat Pathans

Fredrik Barth

• Paperback | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 19
• A classic and highly influential ethnography, which explores political leadership among Swat Pathans - and which emphasizes the importance of individu... Lees meer

Rethinking Anthropology

E R Leach

• Hardcover | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 30
• A collection of brilliant and provocative essays from Edmund Leach, one of the most original voices in the social anthropological tradition. Lees meer

Chinese Spirit-Medium Cults in Singapore

Alan Elliott

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Land Tenure in Ibo Village in South-Eastern Nigeria

M M Green

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Report on the Iban

Derek Freedman

• Paperback | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 41
• 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 wri... Lees meer

Indigenous Political Systems of West Malaya

J M Gullick

• Paperback | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 24
• An analysis of the political organization of the traditional government of the Malay Sultans before the introduction of British rule in 1874. Lees meer

White Nile Arabs

Abbas Mohamed

• Paperback | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology
• This book is an account of the changing social and political structure of the Hassaniya and Hissinat, two Sudanese Arabic speaking tribes inhabiting t... Lees meer

The Political Structure of the Chinese Community in Cambodia

W E Willmott

• Paperback | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology
• This field study of organized Chinese life in Cambodia, past and present, takes its place in the growing sociological literature on the overseas Chine... Lees meer

Malay Peasant Society in Jelebu

M G Swift

• Paperback | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 82
• 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... Lees meer

Knowledge of Illness in a Sepik Society

Gilbert Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 52
• Illness is a matter of concern in every society. Social responses to it depend both on the nature of the illness and on cultural interpretation of its... Lees meer

Pioneers in the Tropics

Philip Staniford

• Hardcover | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 6
• This study of a substantial Japanese immigrant community in Brazil concentrates on its development of a political organization to cope with internal p... Lees meer

The Chinese of Sarawak

Ju-K'Ang Tien

• Hardcover | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 73
• Initially published in 1953, The Chinese of Sarawak, A Study of Social Structure, is the study of the social, economic and political organization of t... Lees meer

Cooperation in Chinese Communities

• Hardcover | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology
• When humans cooperate, what are the social and psychological mechanisms that enable them to do so successfully? Is cooperativeness something natural f... Lees meer