Levi-Strauss

Leach, Edmund

Fontana/Collins

Social Anthropology

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Oxford University Press

Levi Strauss

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Fontana

L*Evi Strauss

Fontana Press

a biography and critique of the work of the father of anthropology.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Penguin??Books

The Masterguides Series In Social Anthropology, Edmund Leach offers a forthright discussion of the history and foundations of the discipline. He gives a critical account of the background of thought related to anthropology, the work done by its major contributors, and the latest controversies and developments in the field. "Radiates enjoyment and vitality.... The intellectual vivacity, brilliance, and richness are something this book shares with Leach's other works: but this one comes closer than the others to being a kind of intellectual autobiography." - The Sunday Times (London) Edmund Leach is Professor of Anthropology at Kings College, Cambridge, and author of several notable works, most recently Culture and Communication.

Structuralism: an introduction; (Wolfson College lectures)

ECO,UMBERTO

Robey, David

Gandy, Robin

Culler, Jonathan

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Clarendon Press

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.

Humor & Entertainment

University of Chicago Press

The aim of these two volumes is to bring together a representative selection of the writings of Edmund Leach (1910–1989), a brilliant and prolific anthropologist known not only in his field but to the educated public at large. Leach perceived anthropology as a vital and broadly based study of the human condition, encompassing methods and ideas from the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. His writings reflect the conviction that anthropology is of direct and practical importance to social policy and political debate. These two volumes present more than fifty items―many difficult to obtain and several never before published―displaying the considerable range of Leach’s anthropological interests, the debates he provoked, and the issues he championed. Volume 1 Anthropology and Society containsa selection of Leach’s writings on “society,” taken largely though not exclusively from the early part of his career. Here his writings on social structure, social relations and social practices were heavily informed by the functionalism of Malinowski and Firth, and by an old-style ethnographer’s insistence on the importance of ethnographic detail. His discussions about political institutions and about kinship were generally part of theoretical debates on how to model social systems and describe human action, and Leach was a searching critic of some of the bedrock assumptions of mid-twentieth century functionalist social theory. The volume includes some of Leach’s best-known and most influential professional writings: such essays as “Rethinking Anthropology” and extracts from Political Systems of Highland Burma, persuasive re-analyses of the work of earlier anthropologists, and major statements on kinship, ritual, classification, and taboo. “Once a Knight is Quite Enough,” a hitherto unpublished piece, is a vivid and amusing comparison of the ceremony in which Leach was given a knighthood and a pig-sacrifice in Borneo.

The Essential Edmund Leach: Volume 1: Anthropology and Society

Yale University Press

The aim of these two volumes is to bring together a representative selection of the writings of Edmund Leach (1910–1989), a brilliant and prolific anthropologist known not only in his field but to the educated public at large. Leach perceived anthropology as a vital and broadly based study of the human condition, encompassing methods and ideas from the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. His writings reflect the conviction that anthropology is of direct and practical importance to social policy and political debate. These two volumes present more than fifty items―many difficult to obtain and several never before published―displaying the considerable range of Leach’s anthropological interests, the debates he provoked, and the issues he championed. Volume 2 Culture and Human Nature reflectsthe changing focus of Leach’s academic interests, away from a concern with politics, kinship, and social structure toward a structuralist analysis of myth and symbolism and an interest in Freudian psychology. These cogent and provocative pieces shed light on less well-known subjects of Leach’s interest: material culture, art, and cross-cultural aesthetics; the body and the senses; race, ethnocentrism, and the origins of conflict and violence. Alongside such celebrated pieces as “Magical Hair,” the volume also offers a group of Leach’s popular writings and lectures, showing how he applied ideas developed in academic argument to wider public debate―about controversial court cases, current events, and issues ranging from children’s fiction and education to urban planning. Whether addressing an issue as topical as the death of Winston Churchill or as theoretical as the philosophy of Lévi-Strauss, Leach unfailingly leads the reader on a thought-provoking journey.

The Essential Edmund Leach: Volume 2: Culture and Human Nature

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