Edmund Leach
Edmund Leach

Author: Stanley J. Tambiah

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-02-14

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 9780521521024

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Intellectual biography of Edmund Leach, a leading social anthropologist of his generation, with illustrations.

Claude Levi-Strauss
Claude Levi-Strauss

Author: Edmund Leach

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780226469683

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In this lucide guide to the often abstruse works of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Edmund Leach synthesizes the thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest anthropologists and provides a thoughtful introduction to the theory and practice of structuralism. Leach organizes his work not by chronology but by theme, exploring three important topics in Lévi-Strauss's work: human beings and their symbols, the structure of myth, and kinship theory. Written concisely and with great care and penetration, this brief book is both a fine introduction for the uninitiated reader of Lévi-Strauss and a critical analysis that will prove valuable to those more familiar with the anthropologist's work.

Culture and Communication
Culture and Communication

Author: Edmund Ronald Leach

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1976-03-26

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9780521290524

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Edmund Leach's book investigates the writings of 'structuralists' and their theories in anthropology.

The Essential Edmund Leach: Anthropology and society
The Essential Edmund Leach: Anthropology and society

Author: Edmund Ronald Leach

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780300081244

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This volume contains a selection of Edmund Leach's writings on society, taken largely, though not exclusively, from the early part of his career. It includes such essays as Rethinking Anthropology and extracts from Political Systems of Highland Burma.

The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism
The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism

Author: Edmund Leach

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1135032947

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Designed to provoke controversy, the papers in this volume concentrate on two main themes: the study of myth and totemism. Starting with an English translation of La Geste d'Asdiwal, which is widely considered to be the most brilliant of all of Lévi-Strauss's shorter expositions of his technique of myth analysis, the volume also contains criticism of this essay. The second part of the volume discusses how far Lévi-Strauss's treatment of totemism as a system of category formation can be correlated with the facts that an ethnographer encounters in the field. First published in 1967.

Political Systems of Highland Burma
Political Systems of Highland Burma

Author: E. R. Leach

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-01-07

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1000324613

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The main body of the book is concerned with the theme that empirical political behaviour among the Kachin is a compromise response to the polarised political doctrines of gumsa and gumlao.. Nearly one-third of this book consists of Chapter V entitiled 'The Structural Categories of Kachin Gumsa Society'. It is concerned with the interpretation of a series of verbal concepts and their interconnections. This long chapter is placed between a relatively short account of a particular Kachin community directly observed (Chapter IV) and a series of chapters (VI, VII, VIII) containing secondhand ethnographic and historical evidence.