The Essential Edmund Leach; Volume 1: Anthropology and Society,9780300081244

The Essential Edmund Leach; Volume 1: Anthropology and Society

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ISBN13: 9780300081244
ISBN10: 0300081243
Format: Trade Book
Pub. Date: 2001-03-11
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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Summary

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.

Anthropology and Society contains a 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

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1(14)
SECTION I. INTELLECTUAL INTERACTIONS 15(134)
Frazer and Malinowski (1965)
25(19)
Malinowski's Empiricism (1957)
44(18)
An Anthropologist's Trivia (1967)
62(2)
Raymond Firth (1979)
64(7)
The Ecology of Mental Process (1980)
71(3)
Review of Meyer Fortes, The Web of Kinship (1950)
74(3)
Review of Radcliffe-Brown, A Natural Science of Society and Nadel, The Theory of Social Structure (1958)
77(3)
Social Anthropology: A Natural Science of Society? (1976)
80(17)
Claude Levi-Strauss: Anthropologist and Philosopher (1965)
97(16)
Telstar and the Abrigines, or La Pensee sauvage (1964)
113(14)
Anthropology Upside Down (1974)
127(5)
The Shangri-La That Never Was (1983)
132(4)
A Poetics of Power (1981)
136(5)
Writing Anthropology (1989)
141(8)
SECTION 2. THE AESTHETIC FRILLS: RITUAL 149(62)
Ritual as an Expression of Social Status (1954)
153(5)
Ritualisation in Man (1966)
158(7)
Ritual (1968)
165(9)
Cronus and Chronos (1953/1961)
174(8)
Time and False Noses (1955/1961)
182(4)
The Cult of Informality (1965)
186(8)
Once a Knight is Quite Enough (1981)*
194(17)
SECTION 3. THE HARD CORE: KINSHIP AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE 211(102)
Letter from Bhamo (1939)*
217(2)
Models in Equilibrium and Societies in Change (1954)
219(6)
The Frontiers of `Burma' (1961)
225(17)
Concerning Trobriand Clans and the Kinship Category Tabu (1958)
242(25)
Kinship in its Place (1961)
267(12)
Models (1964)
279(7)
Rethinking Anthropology (1959/1961)
286(27)
SECTION 4.THE PLACE OF AMBIGUITY: CLASSIFICATION AND TABOO 313(56)
Babar's Civilisation Analysed (1962)
318(4)
Animal Categories and Verbal Abuse (1964)
322(21)
The Nature of War (1965)
343(14)
Profanity in Context (1977/1980)
357(12)
References 369(27)
Index 396

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