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

Metamorphosis of the Cassowaries

Alfred Gell

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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

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

Uncertainties in Peasant Farming

Sutti Ortiz

• Hardcover | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 90
• This book examines the life and historical background of the Paez peasants of Colombia and their relationship with the land, including issues of tenur... Lees meer

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

Ma' Betisek Concepts of Living Things

Wazir-Jahan Karim

• Hardcover | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 54
• The Ma' Betisek are a group of aborigines who live on the mangrove coastal area of Selangor in peninsular Malaysia. Dr Karim's study is mainly focused... Lees meer

Ma' Betisek Concepts of Living Things

Wazir-Jahan Karim

• Paperback | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 54
• The Ma' Betisek are a group of aborigines who live on the mangrove coastal area of Selangor in peninsular Malaysia. Dr Karim's study is mainly focused... Lees meer

The Art of Anthropology

Alfred Gell

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

Between China and Europe

João de Pina-Cabral

• Hardcover | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 79
• 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

White Nile Arabs

Abbas Mohamed

• Hardcover | 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 Performance of Gender

Cecilia Busby

• Hardcover | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 52
• 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

Essays on Social Organisation and Values

Raymond William Firth

• Hardcover | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 36
• In this volume Professor Firth has brought together and commented upon a number of his papers on anthropological subjects published over the last thir... Lees meer

The Harambee Movement in Kenya

Martin Hill

• Hardcover | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 12
• This volume explores issues of self-help, development and education among the Kamba of Kitui District. Lees meer

Sacrifice and Sharing in the Philippine Highlands

Thomas P Gibson

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Pioneers in the Tropics

Philip Staniford

• Paperback | 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

Uncertainties in Peasant Farming

Sutti Ortiz

• Paperback | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 90
• This book examines the life and historical background of the Paez peasants of Colombia and their relationship with the land, including issues of tenur... Lees meer

Gods on Earth

Peter Van Der Veer

• Hardcover | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 23
• A detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues that religious values CAN reflect political and economic processes. Lees meer

The Earth Shakers of Madagascar

Oliver Woolley

• Hardcover | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 73
• An analysis of how the complex rituals of Sahafatra culture are used to transform a once barren landscape into agricultural land. Lees meer

Kinship and Economic Organisation in Rural Japan

Chie Nakane

• Paperback | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 89
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Leadership and Change in the Western Pacific

• Hardcover | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 76
• An ethnographic exploration of the rise of new forms of leadership at community and national levels with islanders are synthesising traditional and We... Lees meer

Political Leadership Among Swat Pathans

Fredrik Barth

• Hardcover | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 49
• A classic and highly influential ethnography, which explores political leadership among Swat Pathans - and which emphasizes the importance of individu... 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

Social and Economic Organization of the Rowanduz Kurds

Edmund Leach

• Hardcover | Engels | Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology | nr. 65
• Social and Economic Organization of the Rowanduz Kurds Lees meer