LSE's Anthropology Department, with a long and distinguished history, remains a leading centre for innovative research and teaching. We are committed to both maintaining and renewing the core of the discipline, and our training of PhD students is recognized as outstanding.

The Department is pleased to announce thatthe following people will be joining us as staff in the 2010/11 academic year:

Dr Alonso Barros (LSE Fellow in the Anthropology of Modern Law)
Dr Hans Steinmuller (Lecturer in the Anthropology of China)
Dr Harry Walker (Lecturer in Anthropology)

Professor Martha Mundy| honoured by Harvard University for her co-authored book Governing Property, Making the Modern State: Law, Administration and Production in Ottoman Syria.

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The Individualization of Chinese Society|

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 individualization of Chinese society itself. Despite China's dramatic entrance into global politics and economics, neither of these shifts have been fully analysed.

Conversion after Socialism: Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union|

The large and sudden influx of missionaries into the former Soviet Union after seventy years of militant secularism has been controversial, and the widespread occurrence of conversion has led to anxiety about social and national disintegration.

Iron in the Soul: Displacement, Livelihood and Health in Cyprus|

In his vivid, lively account of how Greek Cypriot villagers coped with a thirty-year displacement, Peter Loïzos follows a group of people whom he encountered as prosperous farmers in 1968, yet found as disoriented refugees when revisiting in 1975.

Seligman Library Relaunch| 23 June 2010

Events will resume at the start of the new academic year.

To view events run during 2009/10, please see our Events| pages.

Victoria Boydell The Social Life of the Pill: An Ethnography of Contraceptive Pill Users in a Central London Family Planning Clinic

Judith Bovensiepen The Land of Gold: Risk and Recognition in the Central Highlands of Timor-Leste

Yoshimi Umeda Filipina Intermarriage in Rural Japan: An Anthropological Approach

Katharine Dow A Stable Environment: Surrogacy and the Good Life in Scotland

Carolyn Heitmeyer Identity and Difference in a Muslim Community in Central Gujarat, India Following the 2002 Communal Violence

Andrew Sanchez Workers, Netas and Goondas: The Casualisation of Labour in an Indian Company Town

Elizabeth Hull Status, Morality and the Politics of Transformation: An Ethnographic Account of Nurses in Kwa-Zulu-Natal, South Africa

Nicolas Martin Politics, Patronage and Debt Bondage in the Pakistani Punjab

Tom Widger Self Harm and Self Inflicted Death amongst Sinhalese Buddhits in Sri Lanka: An Ethnographic Study

Rory De Wilde Opium Poppy Husk Traders in Rajasthan: The Lives and Work of Businessmen in the Contemporary Indian Opium Industry

Hans Steinmuller Everyday Moralities: Family, Work, Ritual, and the Local State in Rural China

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