Download or read book Edmund Leach written by Stanley J. Tambiah and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-02-14 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intellectual biography of Edmund Leach, a leading social anthropologist of his generation, with illustrations.
Download or read book Culture and Communication written by Edmund Ronald Leach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1976-03-26 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund Leach's book investigates the writings of 'structuralists' and their theories in anthropology.
Download or read book Claude Levi Strauss written by Edmund Leach and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Essential Edmund Leach Culture and human nature written by Edmund Ronald Leach and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together a representative selection of the writings of Edmund Leach.
Download or read book The Essential Edmund Leach Anthropology and society written by Edmund Ronald Leach and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism written by Edmund Leach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Edmund Leach written by Edmund Ronald Leach and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Political Systems of Highland Burma written by E. R. Leach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Pul Eliya a Village in Ceylon written by Edmund Ronald Leach and published by Cambridge, U. P. This book was released on 1961 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aspects of Caste in South India Ceylon and North West Pakistan written by Edmund Ronald Leach and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1960 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book endeavours to test two opposing arguments about the meaning of the term caste.
Download or read book The Modern Anthropology of South East Asia written by Victor King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive introduction to the social and cultural anthropology of South-East Asia. It provides an overview of the major theoretical issues and themes which have emerged from the engagement of anthropologists with South-East Asian communities; a succinct historical survey and analysis of the peoples and cultures of the region. Most importantly the volume reveals the vitally important role which the study of the area has occupied in the development of the concepts and methods of anthropology: from the perspectives of Edmund Leach to Clifford Geertz, Maurice Freedman to Claude Levi-Strauss; Lauriston Sharp to Melford Spiro.
Download or read book Genesis as Myth written by Edmund Ronald Leach and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Structuralist Interpretations of Biblical Myth written by Edmund Leach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-09-22 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the application of anthropological techniques for analysing myth the essays in this 1983 volume offer interesting and thought-provoking structuralist insights for a variety of particular cases in the Scriptures. They also give some account of past interactions between anthropologists and Christian theologians, and enter the debate on the historicity of Biblical events. Edmund Leach has been interested for many years in the implications of a structuralist mode of myth analysis for the explanation of scriptural texts and problems. His essays in this book continue the line of enquiry he first developed in Genesis as Myth (1969) and he pursues his arguments here with characteristic colour and brilliance of exposition. With the two pieces by Dr Alan Aycock on related themes, this volume makes a fascinating and controversial contribution to the study and interpretation of the Bible.
Download or read book Social Dynamics in the Highlands of Southeast Asia written by François Robinne and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on long term fieldwork and research in communities from Assam through to Laos, this book offers a unique level of reappraisal of the work of Edmund Leach and is a significant contribution to the development of a new regional anthropology of Southeast Asia.
Download or read book The Essential Edmund Leach written by Edmund Ronald Leach and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Kula written by Jerry W. Leach and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1983-05-19 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hamlet s Mill written by Giorgio De Santillana and published by Gambit, Incorporated, Publishers. This book was released on 1969 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
