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The Essential Edmund Leach: Volume 1: Anthropology and Society,Used
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The aim of these two volumes is to bring together a representative selection of the writings of Edmund Leach (19101989), a brilliant and prolific anthropologist known not only in his field but to the educated public at large. Leach perceived anthropology as a vital and broadly based study of the human condition, encompassing methods and ideas from the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. His writings reflect the conviction that anthropology is of direct and practical importance to social policy and political debate. These two volumes present more than fifty itemsmany difficult to obtain and several never before publisheddisplaying the considerable range of Leachs anthropological interests, the debates he provoked, and the issues he championed.Volume 1Anthropology and Society containsa selection of Leachs writings on society, taken largely though not exclusively from the early part of his career. Here his writings on social structure, social relations and social practices were heavily informed by the functionalism of Malinowski and Firth, and by an oldstyle ethnographers insistence on the importance of ethnographic detail. His discussions about political institutions and about kinship were generally part of theoretical debates on how to model social systems and describe human action, and Leach was a searching critic of some of the bedrock assumptions of midtwentieth century functionalist social theory.The volume includes some of Leachs bestknown and most influential professional writings: such essays as Rethinking Anthropology and extracts from Political Systems of Highland Burma, persuasive reanalyses of the work of earlier anthropologists, and major statements on kinship, ritual, classification, and taboo. Once a Knight is Quite Enough, a hitherto unpublished piece, is a vivid and amusing comparison of the ceremony in which Leach was given a knighthood and a pigsacrifice in Borneo.
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