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Online catalogue
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The following link takes you to the Advanced search facility of the Archives catalogue: search for Anthropology in the Term field to find the main collections relating to this topic: Archives catalogue.
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Some collections are catalogued to item-level on the Archives catalogue. For a full list of these see Completed Catalogues.
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A few collections have handlists which are not currently available on the Archives catalogue: if so, links are provided below. The handlists will be added to the online catalogue as soon as possible.
Briefing paper
Anthropology briefing paper| (PDF).
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Main collections
LSE Archives holds the papers of significant anthropologists including (reference codes to the documents are in brackets):
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Sir Raymond Firth, 1901-2002 (FIRTH)
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Sir Raymond Firth, 1901-2002: photographs (FIRTH PHOTOGRAPHS)
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Ernest Gellner, 1925-1995 (GELLNER)
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Phyllis Kaberry, 1910-1977 (KABERRY)
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Bronislaw Malinowski, 1884-1942 (MALINOWSKI)
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Siegfried Nadel, 1903-1956 (NADEL)
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Margaret Read, 1889-1991 (READ)
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Audrey Richards, 1899-1984 (RICHARDS)
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Charles Seligman, 1873-1940, and Brenda Seligman, 1883-1965 (SELIGMAN)
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Isaac Schapera, 1905-2003 (SCHAPERA and COLL MISC 0673)
Each archive may include:
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Fieldwork documents, such as notebooks and photographs.
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Professional papers, e.g. correspondence and lecture notes.
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Personal papers, e.g. diaries and family documents.
LSE Archives also holds the institutional papers of anthropological organisations, including:
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Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA)
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Colonial Social Science Research Council (COLONIAL RESEARCH)
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International African Institute (IAI)