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.

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.

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.

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.

Nature, Culture and Society
Nature, Culture and Society

Author: Gísli Pálsson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1107085845

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Reflecting upon the changing human condition, Palsson addresses various conflated zones of life at particular times and scales. Engaging with topical issues on the public agenda, from personal genomics to human-animal relations to the global environment, the book sets out a compelling case for meaningful change.