Edmund Leach

In the LRB Archive:

• Sudden Losses of Complexity · 10 November 1988

  • The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter

• Word of Mouth · 3 March 1988

  • The Interface between the Written and the Oral by Jack Goody

• Aryan Warlords in their Chariots · 2 April 1987

  • Black Athena: The Afro-Asiatic Roots of Classical Civilisation. by Martin Bernal

• Violence · 23 October 1986

  • The Anthropology of Violence edited by David Riches
  • Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process by Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning
  • Sport, Power and Culture: A Social and Historical Analysis of Popular Sports in Britain by John Hargreaves
  • At the Dawn of Tyranny: The Origins of Individualism, Political Oppression and the State by Eli Sagan

• Naming of Dogs · 20 March 1986

  • The View from Afar by Claude Lévi-Strauss, translated by Joachim Neugroschel and Phoebe Hoss

• Common Ground · 19 September 1985

  • A Social History of Western Europe 1450-1720: Tensions and Solidarities among Rural People by Sheldon Watts
  • Kinship in the Past: An Anthropology of European Family Life 1500-1900 by Andrejs Plakans
  • Interests and Emotion: Essays on the Study of Family and Kinship edited by Hans Medick and David Warren Sabean

• Middle American · 7 March 1985

  • Margaret Mead: A Life by Jane Howard
  • With a Daughter’s Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson by Mary Catherine Bateson

• Anthropologies · 2 August 1984

  • Nomads and the Outside World by A.M. Khazanov, translated by Julia Crookenden
  • The House of Si Abd Allah: The Oral History of a Moroccan Family edited by Henry Munson
  • Ruth Benedict: Patterns of a Life by Judith Modell

• Intolerance · 3 May 1984

  • The Human Cycle by Colin Turnbull

• Jesus and Cain · 2 December 1982

  • The Sacred Executioner: Human Sacrifice and the Legacy of Guilt by Hyam Maccoby

• Bridges · 15 July 1982

  • Myth, Religion and Society: Structuralist Essays by M. Detienne, L. Gernet, J-P. Vernant and P. Vidal-Naquet, edited by R.L. Gordon
  • The Anthropological Circle: Symbol, Function, History by Marc Augé

• Quality Distinctions · 17 December 1981

  • The Architecture of Experience: A Discussion of the Role of Language and Literature in the Construction of the World by G.D. Martin

• Lacan’s Mirrors · 2 July 1981

  • The Talking Cure: Essays in Psychoanalysis and Language edited by Colin MacCabe

• Incidence of Incest · 19 February 1981

  • The Red Lamp of Incest: A Study in the Origins of Mind and Society by Robin Fox
  • Betrayal of Innocence: Incest and its Devastation by Susan Forward and Craig Buck

• Love, Peace and Horror · 22 January 1981

  • Black and White by Shiva Naipaul

• Cairo Essays · 4 December 1980

  • Evans-Pritchard by Mary Douglas

• Tarot Triumph · 4 September 1980

  • The Game of Tarot: from Ferrara to Salt Lake City by Michael Dummett
  • Twelve Tarot Games by Michael Dummett

• Goldthorpe, Halsey and Social Class · 20 March 1980

  • Social Mobility and Class Structure in Modern Britain by John Goldthorpe
  • Origins and Destinations: Family, Class and Education in Modern Britain by A.H. Halsey

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