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PhD Anthropology Columbia University
Masters Anthropology Columbia University
Bachelors Anthropology Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, Anthony Leeds was an anthropologist best known for his work in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and on urban-rural relations in Brazil. Education He received his B.A. in anthropology from Columbia University in 1949. Field work in Bahia, Brazil, led to his dissertation "Economic Cycles in Brazil: The Persistence of a Total-Culture Pattern: Cacao and Other Cases". Students at Columbia at roughly the same time were Marvin Harris, Sally Falk Moore, Robert Murphy, and Andrew P. Vayda. Leeds earned his PhD in anthropology from Columbia University in 1957.

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Anthony Leeds's Published Works

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Brazilian Careers and Social Structure: An Evolutionary Model and Case History (1964) (68)
Man, Culture and Animals: The Role of Animals in Human Ecological Adjustments (1966) (61)
Ecology, Evolution, and the Search for Cultural Origins: The Question of Islamic Pig Prohibition [and Comments and Reply] (1978) (58)
Man, culture, and animals (1965) (40)
Cities, classes, and the social order (1994) (37)
"Women in the Migratory Process": A Reductionist Outlook (1976) (27)
Cities and Countryside in Anthropology (1984) (13)
Yaruro Incipient Tropical Forest Horticulture:: Possibilities And Limits (1961) (12)
Some Problems Of Yaruro Ethnohistory (1964) (10)
Sociobiology, Anti-Sociobiology, and Human Nature. (1977) (7)
Capitalism, Colonialism and War: An Evolutionary Perspective (1975) (4)
Anthropology and the Study of War (1961) (3)
General/Theoretical Anthropology: A Crack in the Mirror: Reflexive Perspectives in Anthropology. Jay Ruby, ed (1985) (3)
Notes on the Process of Industrialization in Argentina, Chile and Peru (1969) (2)
‘Subjective’ and ‘Objective’ in Social Anthropological Epistemology (1974) (2)
Social Structure, Stratification, and Mobility. (1971) (2)
Portuguese Political Economy and Migration (1979) (1)
Ethics Report Criticized (1969) (1)
We Shall Dry Our Eyes (1986) (1)
On the "Shantytown" Conference Report (1979) (1)
Considerations Regarding Anthropology in High School Curricula (1961) (1)
Thales de Azevedo's influence on Brazilian studies by North-Americans: a personal note. (1970) (1)
The Right Question to Ask about War (1981) (0)
AAAS Lays Plans for Annual Meeting (1967) (0)
Ethnology: Children of the Barriada: A Photographic Essay on the Latin American Population Problem. J. MAYONE STYCOS (1972) (0)
Arthritic symptoms related to position and function of mandible. (1985) (0)
Commentaries (1990) (0)
Book Review: Latin American Urban Research Vol. 1 (1973) (0)
On Westen on Cultural Materialism (1985) (0)
Social structure, stratification and mobility = Estructura, estratificación y movilidad social (1971) (0)
Sociobiology, Anti-Sociobiology, Epistemology, and Human Nature (1984) (0)
Latin American Urban Research Vol 1. (1973) (0)
Journal Contents (1965) (0)
DIVISION OF ANTHROPOLOGY: “MICROINVENTION” AS AN EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS* (1962) (0)
OTHER: A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry. Denis Diderot (1961) (0)
Ethnology: Anthropologists in Cities. George M. Foster and Robert V. Kemper, eds (1976) (0)
On Scale (1978) (0)

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