Malay Kinship and Marriage in Singapore

Judith Djamour

• Hardcover | LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
• Dr Djamour spent two years in Singapore, both in the city and in a Malay fishing village, and her first-hand account draws a lively and sympathetic pi... Lees meer

Arguments with Ethnography

Ioan Lewis

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• A critique of the globalisation of the culture principle, arguing that theory is dependent on the actual study of peoples. Lees meer

Hierarchy and Egalitarianism

Tamara Gunasekera

• Hardcover | LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
• A comprehensive analysis of stratification in rural Sri Lanka, taking into account the hierarchies of class, status and power. Lees meer

Kinship and Marriage Among the Anlo Ewe

G. K. Nukunya

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• 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 num... Lees meer

The Earth Shakers of Madagascar

Oliver Woolley

• Hardcover | LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
• An analysis of how the complex rituals of Sahafatra culture are used to transform a once barren landscape into agricultural land. Lees meer

Tribal Innovators

Isaac Schapera

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• This book is a completely revised version of a study published in 1943. That study, entitled Tribal Legislation among the Tswana of the Bechuanaland P... Lees meer

Malay Peasant Society in Jelebu

M. G. Swift

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• 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

Lineage Organisation in South-Eastern China

Maurice Freedman

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• Lineage Organisation in South-Eastern China Lees meer

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

Darryl Forde

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• Marriage and the Family among the Yako in South-Eastern Nigeria Lees meer

Marsh Dwellers of the Euphrates Delta

S. M. Salim

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• Dr Salim, of Bagdad University, spent two years amongst the remarkable tribal peoples who inhabit the great marshes of the lower Euphrates. Lees meer

The Performance of Gender

Cecilia Busby

• Paperback | LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
• The Performance of Gender presents a vivid description of everyday life in order to explore the concept of performance for an anthropology of gender. Lees meer

The Political Structure of the Chinese Community in Cambodia

W. E. Willmott

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• 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

Kinship and Marriage Among the Anlo Ewe

G.K. Nukunya

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• Describes the complex system of landholdings that the high density of population make necessary. This work also discusses the changes in household str... Lees meer

Ordinary Ethics in China

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• Drawing on a wide range of anthropological case studies, this book focuses on ordinary ethics in contemporary China. The book examines the kinds of mo... Lees meer

Between China and Europe

Joao de Pina-Cabral

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• From the mid-1500s to December 1999, Macao was the longest-standing site of economic, religious and political contact between the Chinese and European... Lees meer

The Keresan Bridge

Robin Fox

• Hardcover | LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
• 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

Making Sense of Hierarchy: Cognition as Social Process in Fiji

Christina Toren

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• Analyses Fijian hierarchy and its constitution in everyday ritual behaviour. Lees meer

Kinship and Marriage in a New Guinea Village

H. Ian Hogbin

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• The economic and political systems, legal code and religious beliefs of the people of the New Guinea village of Busama were analysed by H. Lees meer

Ma' Betisek Concepts of Living Things

Wazir-Jahan Karim

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• The Ma' Betisek are a group of aborigines who live on the mangrove coastal area of Selangor in peninsular Malaysia. Despite increasing deforestation a... Lees meer

Social Status and Power in Java

Leslie H. Palmier

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• 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 soc... Lees meer

Kinship and Marriage Among the Anlo Ewe

G. K. Nukunya

• Hardcover | LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
• 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 num... Lees meer

Christianity and the Shona

Marshall Murphree

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• A study of religion in a Rhodesian tribe, based on the author's field work in the Shona community from 1962-4. The author's thesis is that there were ... Lees meer