Edmund Leach: An Anthropological Life

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Cambridge University Press, 14 févr. 2002 - 517 pages
Edmund Leach is widely regarded as the outstanding figure in Cambridge archaeology in the second half of the twentieth century, and as one of the leading social anthropologists of his generation. Stanley Tambiah's intellectual biography of Leach covers his professional career and situation and reviews his writings. The work is organised chronologically provides an introductory assessment and a closing, personal, portrait, and two brief chapters discuss Leach's early years. But the bulk of the book deals with Leach's anthropological projects.
 

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Edmund Leach 19101989 achievements
1
Childhood and youth
6
Apprenticeship and the Second World War
30
The anthropologist at work teacher and theorist
47
The Political Systems of Highland Burma
82
The Frontiers of Burma
122
Pul Eliya the challenge to descent group theory
149
Hydraulic Society in Ceylon contesting Wittfogels thesis and Sri Lankan mythohistory
210
Anthropology of art and architecture
318
Individuals social persons and masquerade
348
Leach and LéviStrauss similarities and differences
361
A Runaway World?
380
British anthropology and colonialism challenge and response
405
Retrospective assessment and rethinking anthropology
429
The work of sustaining institutions Provost of Kings College 19661979
456
Retirement retrospection and final illness
471

The engagement with structuralism
235
The comparativist stance us and them and the translation of cultures
259
The structural analysis of biblical narratives
290
Bibliography
490
Index
505
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À propos de l'auteur (2002)

Stanley J. Tambiah is the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1954. He joined the faculty at the University of Cambridge, where he taught for ten years, and was a Fellow of King's College. He went to the University of Chicago in 1973, and moved to Harvard Univesity in 1976. He began field work in Sri Lanka (1956-59), the island of his birth, and and later worked in Thailand. He is the author of eight books.

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TitreEdmund Leach: An Anthropological Life
Edmund Leach: An Anthropological Life, Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
AuteurStanley J. Tambiah
Éditionillustrée
ÉditeurCambridge University Press, 2002
ISBN0521521025, 9780521521024
Longueur517 pages
  
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