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Murray Leaf

Anthropology

#486

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#682

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#271

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Social Anthropology

#39

World Rank

#49

Historical Rank

#6

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Cultural Anthropology

#59

World Rank

#77

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#35

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PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
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According to Wikipedia, Murray John Leaf is an American social and cultural anthropologist. Education He was born in New York City in 1939, and grew up in Tucson, Arizona. After active duty for training in the United States Army Reserves in 1957, he attended the University of Arizona and Reed College, receiving a B.A. in Philosophy from Reed in 1961. He received a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1966. He has taught at Pomona College, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Texas at Dallas.

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WHAT IS “FORMAL” ANALYSIS? (2004) (144)
Actions, Norms, and Representations: Foundations of Anthropological Inquiry. (1985) (79)
Man, Mind, and Science: A History of Anthropology (1979) (52)
Punjabi kinship and marriage (1983) (48)
The New Economics of India's Green Revolution (1994) (45)
The Punjabi Kinship Terminology as a Semantic System (1971) (44)
The Punjab Crisis (1985) (35)
The Green Revolution and Cultural Change in a Punjab Village, 1965-1978 (1983) (33)
Information and behavior in a Sikh village (1975) (29)
Experimental-Formal Analysis of Kinship (2006) (25)
Song of Hope: The Green Revolution in a Panjab Village (1984) (21)
Frontiers of anthropology;: An introduction to anthropological thinking (1974) (15)
Information and Behavior in a Sikh Village: Social Organization Reconsidered (1973) (15)
Irrigation and authority in Rajasthan (1992) (14)
The Rice Economy of Asia . By Randolph Barker and Robert W. Herdt, with Beth Rose. Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 1985. xvii, 324 pp. Figures, Tables, Bibliography, Index. $30 (cloth); $12 (paper). (1986) (13)
Local Control versus Technocracy: The Bangladesh Flood Response Study (1997) (11)
What Are Kinship Terminologies, and Why Do We Care? A Computational Approach to Analyzing Symbolic Domains (2013) (9)
Indian socio-economic development. (1980) (9)
Human Organizations and Social Theory: Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Adaptation (2009) (8)
Pragmatism and Development: The Prospect for Pluralist Transformation in the Third World (2000) (7)
Caste and kin in Nepal, India and Ceylon : anthropological studies in Hindu-Buddhist contact zones (1967) (7)
Post-Green Revolution Rural Punjab: A Profile of Economic and Socio- Cultural Change (1965-95) (1999) (6)
Indigenous Algorithms, Organizations, and Rationality (2008) (5)
Ethnography and Pragmatism (2017) (4)
The Anthropology of Western Religions: Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies (2014) (4)
The Recognition of Kinship Terminologies As Formal Systems (2013) (4)
Walter C. (Terry) Neale (1925-2004) (2005) (2)
Human Thought and Social Organization (2012) (2)
Michael Cernea's Excerpt (2006) (2)
Baking and Roasting: A Compact Demonstration of a Cultural Code (1971) (1)
Singer, Kant, and the Semiotic Self (1989) (1)
Chapter 2 Judicial Ethnocentrism Versus Expert Witnesses in Asylum Cases (2018) (1)
Out of Time: History and Evolution in Anthropological Discourse . By Nicholas Thomas. Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology, No. 67. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. x, 153 pp. $37.50. (1991) (1)
: The Politics of Inequality: Competition and Control in an Indian Village . Miriam Sharma. ; The Politics of Passion: Structure and Strategy in Sikh Society . Harry Izmirlian, Jr.. (1981) (1)
A History of Ethnology. Fred Voget (1978) (1)
Not God's Truth, Just Razzle‐Dazzle (2008) (1)
The Organizational Rubicon of the Upper Paleolithic (2012) (1)
Punjab: The right to organize and the power to develop (2015) (1)
Building Agricultural Institutions: Transferring the Land-Grant Model to India and Nigeria. (1992) (1)
Kinship in Bengali Culture. RONALD B. INDEN and RALPH W. NICHOLAS (1979) (1)
Human Organizations and Social Theory (2017) (1)
Punjab’s ecological crisis: The Akali Dal, SGPC, and competing democratic and authoritarian approaches to development (2021) (1)
An Anthropology of Academic Governance and Institutional Democracy (2019) (1)
Documenting social change: Two approaches (1975) (1)
Disputes and Arguments amongst Nomads: A Caste Council in India:Disputes and Arguments amongst Nomads: A Caste Council in India (2001) (0)
Book Reviews : McAlpine, Michelle B. Subject to Famine: Food Crises and Economic Change in Western India, 1860-1920. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. xiv, 288. Tables, Maps, Figures, Glossary, Index. $35.00 (1986) (0)
When a Great Tradition Modernizes: An Anthropological Approach to Indian Civilization. MILTON SINGER (1974) (0)
Twice Migrants: East African Sikh Settlers in Britain. Parminder Bhachu. (1987) (0)
Economic Implications of the Language Issue: A Local View in Punjab (1976) (0)
McAlpine, Michelle B. Subject to Famine: Food Crises and Economic Change in Western India, 1860-1920. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. xiv, 288. Tables, Maps, Figures, Glossary, Index. $35.00 (1986) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
UCLA and the University of California (2018) (0)
Authority and Influence in Two Sikh Villages . By Harjinder Singh. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1976. 219 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. Rs. 42.00 (1977) (0)
The University of Chicago (2018) (0)
Book Review:Agriculture and the Development Process: A Study of Punjab D. P. Chaudhri, Ajit K. Dasgupta (1988) (0)
Cultural Heritage and the Challenge of Sustainability (2017) (0)
Reed College (2018) (0)
REVIEWWillem van Schendel.Reviving a Rural Industry: Silk Producers and Officials in India and Bangladesh, 1880s to 1980s. Dhaka: University Press, 1995. Pp. 249. (1999) (0)
ReviewF. Thomasson Jannuzi.India's Persistent Dilemma: The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1994. Pp. xiv+241. $49.95 (cloth).C. H. Hanumantha Rao.Agricultural Growth, Rural Poverty and Environmental Degradation in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. (1997) (0)
Investigating Mind by Simulation (2004) (0)
Intelligibility and Unintelligibility: Response to Professor Mithen’s Review of by Murray Leaf and Dwight Read (2014) (0)
Cross-Cultural Data Applicability and Comparisons (2005) (0)
Principles of Social Structure: Southeast Asia. (1977) (0)
General and Theoretical: Rationality. BRYAN R. WILSON (1973) (0)
Public Policy (1994) (0)
Intelligibility and Unintelligibility: Response to Professor Mithen’s Review of Human Thought and Social Organization: Anthropology on a New Plane by Murray Leaf and Dwight Read (2014) (0)
Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War. SidharthanMaunaguru. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 202 pp. (2020) (0)
Sociology for India. T. K. N. Unnithan, Yogendra Singh, Narendra Singhi, and Indra Deva, eds. (1968) (0)
Conclusion (2018) (0)
The University in America (2018) (0)
Science and the history of anthropology (1991) (0)
Indian Agriculture and Agrarian Communities: Two Studies (1994) (0)
Book Review: Researching the Culture in Agriculture: Social Research for International Development, edited by Michael Cernea and Amir H. Kassam. Wallingford, UK: CABI Publishing. 2006. 480 pp (2008) (0)
UT Dallas (2018) (0)
Book Review:Developing Rural India: Policies, Politics, and Progress Walter C. Neale (1994) (0)
Governing Boards and Faculty in California (2018) (0)
Pragmatic and positivistic analyses of kinship terminology (2010) (0)
Experimental-formal a,alysis of kinship (2006) (0)
THE PHYSICAL FARM BUDGET: AN INDIGENOUS OPTIMIZING MANAGERIAL ALGORITHM (2000) (0)
The Attacks (2018) (0)
Governing Boards and Faculty in Texas (2018) (0)
Pragmatic Legal Norms 1 (2017) (0)
An Anthropologist as Expert Witness (2022) (0)
Kinship, Genealogy, Objectivity, and Ethnocentrism (2022) (0)
General and Theoretical: Ideology and Everyday Life: Anthropology, Neomarxist Thought, and the Problem of Ideology and the Social Whole. Steve Bamett and Martin G. Silverman (1980) (0)
The Wild Man Within: An Image in Western Thought from the Renaissance to Romanticism. Edward Dudley , Maximillian E. Novak (1974) (0)
The Theory of Organizations (2018) (0)
Kinship Terminologies, Hypothetical or Extant, Are Optimal Solutions (2014) (0)

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