A photographic collection of images taken by academics from the anthropology department at LSE is now available online.
The 'LSE Anthropology Photographs' project was developed by the Department of Anthropology and LSE Archives in connection with the DART project (Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching). The DART project explored the potential of digital resources for the teaching of undergraduate anthropology.
Anthropologists and Archive staff worked together to create a catalogue of images that can be used as a teaching tool both in the classroom and during students' private studies. The anthropologists selected photographs that they felt represented their fieldwork and interests and the Archive team digitised them and made them available online using the existing catalogue.
The result is an easily accessible resource for students and also an insight into the work of LSE academics:
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Biographical information
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One of the photographs in the collection (click on the thumbnail for the larger image)
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Link to the photographs on the Archives catalogue
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Dr Catherine Allerton is a specialist in the anthropology of Southeast Asia, particularly Eastern Indonesia. She has carried out two periods of fieldwork (1997-1999, 2001) among the people of southern Manggarai in western Flores, where these photographs were taken.
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Dr Catherine Allerton's photographs |
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Dr Laura Bear is a lecturer at LSE specialising in the anthropology of the state, labour, temporality and globalisation in South Asia. These images were taken during a year of fieldwork in 2008 in Howrah and Kolkata, West Bengal and focussed on the changes in livelihoods, ritual practices, family forms, concepts of the past and future and the sensory experiences of the river.
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Dr Laura Bear's photographs|
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Dr Henrike Donner is an urban anthropologist who has completed extensive fieldwork in Calcutta/Kolkata. Her research interests include class, kinship and politics. These photographs have been taken during fieldwork in Calcutta and West Bengal between 1995 and 2005.
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Dr Henrike Donner's photographs|
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Professor Stephan Feuchtwang is a senior research associate at LSE. He is a specialist in religion and politics and has completed extensive fieldwork in China and Taiwan. These images were taken during fieldwork in Taiwan in 1967. They are specifically associated with the Daoist rituals he observed on the island.
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Professor Stephan Feuchtwang's photographs|
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Professor Chris Fuller is a specialist in the anthropology of India, who carried out research on the priests and the rituals of the Minakshi Temple between 1976 and 2002. Photographs taken during fieldwork in Minakshi Temple by Professor Chris Fuller and Dr Penny Logan. Also included are earlier images of the Minakshi temple taken between 1923 and 1933.
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Professor Fuller's photographs|
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Professor Deborah James is a specialist in the anthropology of South Africa. Her research has initially focused on migration and ethnicity, first in rural communities and later in urban settings. These photographs were taken by Santu Mofokeng and Professor James during fieldwork in South Africa between 1983 and 2003.
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Professor James' photographs|
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Professor Michael Lambek is primarily an Africanist. He has carried out fieldwork in the western Indian Ocean since 1975, among Malagasy speakers of Mayotte (Comoro Archipelago) and northwest Madagascar. The photographs illustrate Professor Lambek's research work and have been arranged into two sections.
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Professor Lambek's photographs|
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Professor Emeritus Peter Loizos taught Anthropology at LSE from 1969 to 2002. He is concerned with the anthropology of Mediterranean societies, particularly of Cyprus. He has been conducting fieldwork since 2000 on a group of Greek Cypriots first studied in 1968. The photographs are reproduced with the kind permission of Moufflon Publications (Nicosia) and the proprietor, Ruth Keshishian.
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Professor Loizos' photographs|
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Professor Jonathan Parry has been doing fieldwork in India since 1966 and has worked on various different topics in various parts of the country. All of the photographs in this collection relate to Professor Parry's Bhilai research, and all of them were taken by Ajay T.G. who has worked as a part-time research assistant on the project.
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Professor Parry's photographs|
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Professor Charles Stafford is a specialist in the anthropology of China and Taiwan. His research was initially focused on learning, schooling, child development, and cognition. These photographs were taken during fieldwork in China and Taiwan between 1987 and 2001.
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Professor Stafford's photographs|
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For further information regarding Anthropology at LSE Archives please contact us (contact details|) or see our guide to Anthropology|.