About this title: Stanley J. Tambiah discusses the life of Edmund Leach (1910-1989), one of Britain's foremost social and cultural anthropologists, and a man of extraordinary versatility, originality and intellectual breadth. His substantial contributions to anthropology deal with topics including kinship and social organization, hill tribes and valley peoples, tenure and peasant economy, aesthetics, British structural-functional methodology, the structuralism of Levi-Strauss, biblical narratives and the myths of Classical Greece. Leach was not wedded to any settled orthodoxy: what makes his work exciting is ...
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Description: (Cambridge), Cambridge Univ. Press, (2002). Wrappers, illust., pp. xvii, 517. Remainder mark on lower edge else fine. ISBN 0-521-52102-5. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2002-02-14
ISBN-13:9780521521024ISBN:0521521025
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Description: Fine+ in Near Fine dust jacket; Cambridge University Press; 2002; Hardcover; Very small, pale mark on the top edge. 0521808243. The author discusses the life of Edmund Leach (1910-89), one of Britain's foremost social and cultural anthropologists. His substantial contributions to anthropology deal with topics including kinship and social organization, hill tribes and valley peoples, land tenure and peasant economy, aesthetics, British structural-functional methodology, structuralism of Levi ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780521521024ISBN:0521521025
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 8.98 by 1.3 inches. (538 pages) intellectual biography of edmund leach, a leading social anthropologist of his generation, with illustrations. tambiah discusses the life of edmund leach (1910-1989), one of britain's foremost social and cultural anthropologists. leach's work includes kinsh1p and social organization, tenure and peasant economy, and biblical narratives and the myths of classical greece. tambiah's biography covers leach's work, closing with a personal portrait. ... read more
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13:9780521521024ISBN:0521521025
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2002-03-11
ISBN-13:9780521521024ISBN:0521521025
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13:9780521521024ISBN:0521521025
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