Edmund Leach

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Edmund Leach is affiliated with the following schools: University of Oxford, Dalhousie University, University of Cambridge

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According to Wikipedia, Sir Edmund Ronald Leach FRAI FBA was a British social anthropologist and academic. He served as provost of King's College, Cambridge from 1966 to 1979. He was also president of the Royal Anthropological Institute from 1971 to 1975.

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Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure (1955) (725)
Anthropological Aspects of Language: Animal Categories and Verbal Abuse (1989) (410)
A runaway world (1968) (311)
Culture & communication: Frontmatter (1976) (307)
Culture and communication: the logic by which symbols are connected (1977) (293)
Indigenous Political Systems of Western Malaya (1959) (192)
The Frontiers of “Burma” (1960) (161)
Pul Eliya, a village in Ceylon (1961) (153)
The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism (1968) (147)
Culture and Communication: The Logic by which Symbols Are Connected. An Introduction to the Use of Structuralist Analysis in Social Anthropology (1976) (136)
HYDRAULIC SOCIETY IN CEYLON (1959) (124)
"Culture and Communication : The logic by which symbols are connected : An Introduction to the use of structural analysis in social anthropology", Edmund Leach, Cambridge University Press, 1985 : [recenzja] / Barbara Olszewska-Dyoniziak. (1976) (119)
"Pul Eliya - A Village in Ceylon : A Study of Land Tenure and Kinship", E. R. Leach, London 1961 : [recenzja] / Jadwiga Kowalik. (1961) (117)
The Kula: New Perspectives on Massim Exchange (1983) (113)
Glimpses of the Unmentionable in the History of British Social Anthropology (1984) (109)
On Ethnic Unit Classification [and Comments and Reply] (1964) (88)
Concerning Trobriand Clans And The Kinship Category Tabu (1971) (77)
The "Flood" Myth. (1989) (76)
Genesis as Myth and Other Essays (1969) (73)
Aspects of Caste in South India, Ceylon and North-West Pakistan (1961) (68)
Anthropology and Myth: Lectures 1951–1982 (1988) (64)
G. Ritualization in man: Ritualization in man in relation to conceptual and social development (1966) (62)
Dialectic In Practical Religion (1968) (58)
Custom, Law, And Terrorist Violence (1977) (54)
199. Polyandry, Inheritance and the Definition of Marriage (1955) (51)
Organization of Work: A Comparative Analysis of Production among Non-Industrial Peoples. (1959) (51)
Biology and social science: wedding or rape? (1981) (50)
Structuralist Interpretations Of Biblical Myth (1983) (46)
Melchisedech and the Emperor: Icons of Subversion and Orthodoxy (1972) (38)
Elites in South Asia (1970) (35)
59. Aspects of Bridewealth and Marriage Stability Among the Kachin and Lakher (1957) (29)
Vico: Selected Writings (1982) (29)
Pulleyar and the Lord Buddha: an aspect of religious syncretism in Ceylon. (1962) (23)
An Anthropologist's Reflections on a Social Survey (1991) (22)
Freedom and Civilization (1948) (21)
Levi-Strauss in the Garden of Eden: an examination of some recent developments in the analysis of myth. (1961) (19)
Social anthropology: A natural science of society ? (1976) (18)
Writing Anthropology: Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author . Clifford Geertz. (1989) (16)
The Harvey Lecture Series. The Gatekeepers of Heaven: Anthropological Aspects of Grandiose Architecture (1983) (16)
The Character of Kinship: Complementary Filiation and Bilateral Kinship (1974) (15)
The Konyak Nagas: An Indian Frontier Tribe (1970) (14)
Kimil: A Category of Andamanese Thought (1971) (13)
Social science research in Sarawak : a report on the possibilities of a social economic survey of Sarawak presented to the Colonial Social Science Research Council, London, March 1948-July 1949 (1950) (11)
The Legitimacy of Solomon. Some structural aspects of Old Testament history (1966) (10)
SOCIAL CHANGE AND PRIMITIVE LAW (1959) (9)
Critique de l'anthropologie (1969) (9)
On Asymmetrical Marriage Systems (1957) (8)
General and Theoretical: Forms of Symbolic Action: Proceedings of the 1969 Annual Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society. ROBERT F. SPENCER, ed (1971) (8)
Asymmetric Marriage Rules, Status Difference, and Direct Reciprocity: Comments on an Alleged Fallacy (1961) (8)
Sinhalese Social Organisation; The Kandyan Period (1957) (8)
'Kachin' and 'Haka Chin': A Rejoinder to Levi-Strauss (1969) (7)
Vico and the Future of Anthropology (1976) (6)
On the Limits of Symbolic Interpretation in Anthropology [and Comments and Reply] (1976) (6)
Masquerade: The Presentation of the Self in Holi–Day Life (1990) (6)
Man's Glassy Essence: Explorations in Semiotic Anthropology. MILTON SINGER (1985) (6)
Cultural change, with special reference to the hill tribes of Burma and Assam (1947) (6)
Ancient Society and Morgan's Kinship Theory 100 Years After [and Comments and Reply] (1977) (5)
Malinowskiana: On Reading a Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term: Or the Self Mutilation of Professor Hsu (1980) (5)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms. George Caspar Homans (1961) (5)
A CRITIQUE OF YALMAN’S INTERPRETATION OF SINHALESE GIRL’S PUBERTY CEREMONIAL (1970) (5)
Comment on Scheffler's Note on the Mangaian Kopu (1964) (4)
Developments in Mathematical Education: Some anthropological observations on number, time and common-sense (1973) (4)
189. Stone Implements from Botel Tobago Island (1938) (4)
A Note on the Mangaian Kopu with Special Reference to the Concept of“Nonunilineal Descent” (1962) (4)
Men, bishops and apes (1981) (4)
158. A Trobriand Medusa (1954) (4)
On the Nature of Caste in India A Review Symposium on Louis Dumont's Homo Hierarchicus : 2 "Esprit" in Homo Hierarchicus (1971) (3)
A Possible Method of Intercalation for the Calendar of the Book of Jubilees (1957) (3)
Culture & communication: The logic of sacrifice (1976) (3)
The Mother's Brother in Ancient Egypt (1976) (3)
Reflections on a Visit to Nemi: Did Frazer Get It Wrong? (1985) (3)
Alliance and Descent among the Lakher: A reconsideration (1963) (2)
An Experiment: Suggestions and Queries from the Desk, with a Reply from the Ethnographer (1971) (2)
Institutionen in primitiven Gesellschaften (1967) (2)
CLASSIFICATION In SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY (1962) (2)
Two old and two new Pleocomas (1933) (2)
The Atom of Kinship, Filiation and Descent : Error in Translation or Confusion of Ideas ? (1977) (2)
General, Applied and Theoretical: Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences. ERNEST GELLNER. Edited with a preface by I. C. Jarvie and Joseph Agassi (1975) (2)
Southeast Asian Tribes, Minorities, and Nations. Peter Kunstadter, Ed. Published for the Princeton Center of International Studies by Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1967. 2 vols. xxii + 902 pp., illus. $22.50 (1968) (2)
The big fish in the biblical wilderness (1986) (2)
220. Boat Construction in Botel Tobago (1937) (2)
Opening of Conference (1983) (2)
FREEDOM AND SOCIAL CONDITIONING (1975) (2)
Culture & communication: Objects, sense-images, concepts (1976) (1)
In formative travail with Leviathan (1977) (1)
A Melanau (Sarawak) Twine-Making Device, with Notes on Related Apparatus from N. E. Malaya (1949) (1)
Myth: Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures@@@Genesis as Myth and Other Essays (1972) (1)
Telstar and the Aborigines or La pensee sauvage (1970) (1)
Structuralist Interpretation of Biblical Myth. (1984) (1)
Phenomenon of human culture (1979) (1)
Situational Logic, Social Structure, and Highland Burma [and Comments and Reply] (1976) (1)
GENERAL: The Divine Animal: An Exploration of Human Potentiality. Roger W. Wescott (1970) (1)
Noah's Second Son: A Lady Day Sermon at King's College Cambridge (1988) (1)
The Kula: New Perspectives in Massim Exchange.@@@The Kula: A Bibliography. (1984) (1)
Human strata (1983) (1)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: The Image of the City. Kevin Lynch (1961) (1)
Culture & communication: The symbolic ordering of a man-made world: boundaries of social space and time (1976) (1)
Frazer and Malinowski: A CA Discussion [and Comments and Reply] (1966) (1)
Michelangelo’s Genesis: A structuralist Interpretation of the central panels of the Sistine Chapel ceiling (1985) (1)
Analytical prediction of irradiation swelling of uranium carbide under mechanical restraint (1965) (1)
The ecology of mental process: a life of Gregory Bateson (1980) (1)
On Malinowski, Frazer, and Evolutionism (1968) (1)
103. Some Features of Social Structure Among Sarawak Pagans. (1948) (1)
Public Opinion Polls in Japan (1960) (1)
Talking About Talking About Feudalism (1985) (1)
Two comments on Fredrik Barth's selected essays, Barth's ‘Empirical Science’: A review article (1982) (1)
The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution (1986) (1)
CHAPTER 2 – The Integration of Minorities (1984) (1)
Safeguarding wandering patients. (1985) (0)
What place the soul in behavioural biology? (1983) (0)
Virtuous Quarrels (1956) (0)
Culture & communication: The material representation of abstract ideas: ritual condensation (1976) (0)
From Animistic to Naturalistic Sociology. William R. Catton, Jr (1968) (0)
General And Ethnology: Culture and Society: Twenty‐four Essays. George Peter Murdock (1966) (0)
African Traditional Law. (1977) (0)
"just a Passing Fashion" ... "just a Passing Fashion" (0)
Culture & communication: Introduction (1976) (0)
Asymmetric Marriage Rules, Status Difference, and Direct Reciprocity: Comments on an Alleged Fallacy (1961) (0)
Culture & communication: Conclusion (1976) (0)
A (PARTLY) APOJ˜OGETIC CORRECTION (1965) (0)
Culture & communication: Signals and indices (1976) (0)
Leach's Bible (1984) (0)
Late medieval representations of Saint Mary Magdalene. (1988) (0)
Coming of Age in Shakespeare. MARJORIE GARBER: Shakespeare & Elizabethan Culture: An Anthropological View. PHILIP K. BOCK (1985) (0)
Culture & communication: Mapping: time and space as reciprocal representations (1976) (0)
Culture & communication: Problems of terminology (1976) (0)
Culture and breeding (1974) (0)
The Kula. New Perspectives on Massim Exchange.@@@The Kula. A Bibliography. (1984) (0)
Attitudes to other religions: Comparative religion in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain . By David A. Pailin. Manchester University Press, 1984. Pp. x + 339. £28.50. (1986) (0)
The Organization of Graduate Teaching and Research in Social Anthropology in Great Britain (1966) (0)
Culture & communication: Mating prescriptions and proscriptions (1976) (0)
Primitive Magic and Modern Medicine (1949) (0)
178. Land Tenure in a Sinhalese Village, North Central Province, Ceylon (1955) (0)
Cheistoph Von Furer-Haimendorf (ed.): Caste and kin in Nepal, Indiaand Ceylon: anthropological studies in Hindu-Buddhist contact zones , viii, 364 pp., 8 plates. London: Asia Publishing House, [1966]. 45s. (1967) (0)
Book Review: The Anthropology of Evil (1986) (0)
Relevance: Communication and Cognition. DAN SPERBER and DEIRDRE WILSON (1987) (0)
Culture & communication: Orchestral performance as a metaphor for ritual sequence (1976) (0)
Leach Responds To Criticism (1979) (0)
The Foundations of Social Anthropology , by S. F. Nadel. London: Cohen and West, 1951. Pp. xi, 426. 25 s . (1951) (0)
4. Economic Life and Technology of the Yami of Botel Tobago (1938) (0)
Culture & communication: Rites of transition ( rites de passage ) (1976) (0)
Marriage in Primitive Society (1957) (0)
Culture & communication: Rank order and orientation (1976) (0)
Culture & communication: Theories of magic and sorcery (1976) (0)
Culture & communication: Logic and mytho-logic (1976) (0)
I think the germs are after us. (1972) (0)
Vedda Villages Of Anuradhapura: The Historical Anthropology Of A Community In Sri Lanka (1981) (0)
The Kachin Baptist Church of Burma: A Century of Growth. (1975) (0)
The View from Afar (1986) (0)
Culture & communication: Empiricists and rationalists: economic transactions and acts of communication (1976) (0)
Culture & communication: The physiological basis of sign/symbol sets (1976) (0)
Problems of Land Use in the Dry Zone of Ceylon: Discussion (1954) (0)
Culture & communication: Bibliography (1976) (0)
Matrilineal Kinship.David M. Schneider , Kathleen Gough (1962) (0)
Are there Alternatives to the Family (1983) (0)
Culture & communication: Examples of binary coding (1976) (0)
Culture & communication: Transformations (1976) (0)
Book Review: Alternative Approaches to New Testament Study (1986) (0)
Empires in Collison. (1980) (0)
Culture & communication: Basic cosmology (1976) (0)

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