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Adam Kuper: Edmund Leach, 23 May 2002
Edmund Leach: An Anthropological Life
by Stanley Tambiah.
Cambridge, 517 pp., £60, February 2002,0 521 52102 5 Show More
by Stanley Tambiah.
Cambridge, 517 pp., £60, February 2002,
The Essential Edmund Leach: Vol. I: Anthropology and Society
by Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw.
Yale, 406 pp., £30, February 2001,0 300 08124 3 Show More
by Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw.
Yale, 406 pp., £30, February 2001,
The Essential Edmund Leach: Vol. II: Culture and Human Nature
by Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw.
Yale, 420 pp., £30, February 2001,0 300 08508 7 Show More
by Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw.
Yale, 420 pp., £30, February 2001,
“... sides of the fence,’ he once confessed. During his most creative years, which his biographer, Stanley Tambiah, identifies as the period from 1940 to 1961, he embraced the incompatible doctrines of two great 20th-century anthropologists, Malinowski and Lévi-Strauss. Lévi-Strauss was a philosopher of Kantian tendencies, who represented the Amazonian ... ”
