• Sir Edmund Ronald Leach FRAI FBA (7 November 1910 – 6 January 1989) was a British social anthropologist and academic. He served as provost of King's College...
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  • Family (2003–2007). Leach was born at Much Wenlock, Shropshire. Her parents were teachers, related to the social anthropologist Edmund Leach; she attended Oswestry...
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    Jung, SAGE Publications, ISBN 978-0761962373, pp 56 Edmund Ronald Leach, The Essential Edmund Leach: Culture and human nature, Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0300085082...
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    Leach, Bernard; De Waal, Edmund, eds. (1997). Bernard Leach. St. Ives artists. London: Tate Gallery Publ. ISBN 978-1-85437-227-7. Though Leach wrote...
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  • officers and they fought the Japanese in the jungle of north Burma. Edmund Leach set up the Levies at Fort Hertz, and they were initially placed under...
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    Sanders Peirce Icon Icon (computing) Ideogram Interpretation of dreams Edmund Leach Claude Lévi-Strauss List of symbols Logotype Map-territory relation –...
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  • Lévi-Strauss himself and the British neo-structuralists Rodney Needham and Edmund Leach. The latter was the author of such essays as "Time and False Noses" (in...
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    Chitpavans as they went about settling down. Gordon Johnson (1970). Edmund Leach; S.N.Mukherjee (eds.). elites in south asia. Cambridge University Press...
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  • Rites in the Trobriand Islands Leach, Edmund (1954): Political systems of Highland Burma. London: G. Bell. Leach, Edmund (1982): Social Anthropology Eriksen...
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    having in all instances some expressive or symbolic element in them." Edmund Leach, in contrast, saw ritual and technical action less as separate structural...
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    the woman are the recognized legitimate offspring of both partners." Edmund Leach argued that no one definition of marriage applied to all cultures, but...
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    Gross,: 335  Francis L. K. Hsu,: 13  Phyllis Kaberry, Jomo Kenyatta, Edmund Leach,: 1  Lucy Mair, Z. K. Matthews, Józef Obrębski,: 335  Maria Ossowska...
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    even today this reputation is being well earned". The anthropologist Edmund Leach went to Rawandiz in 1938, to study the Rawandiz Kurds, intending to make...
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    no doors, and they lacked a boundary wall. In most cultures, suggests Edmund Leach, a boundary and gateway separates the secular and the sacred, and this...
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  • Michigan David Leach (disambiguation) Dominique Leach, American chef Edmund Leach (1910–1989), British anthropologist Sir Edward Pemberton Leach (1847–1913)...
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  • August 2007. Retrieved 19 August 2007. "Review of Edmund Leach: An Anthropological Life by Edmund Leach; Stanley Tambiah". Anthropology Today, Vol. 21,...
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  • Edmund Leach Chadwick (31 August 1847 – 6 August 1918) was an English cricketer who played for Lancashire County Cricket Club. He appeared in 13 first-class...
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    work concerned art, language, symbolism and ritual. He was trained by Edmund Leach (MPhil, Cambridge University) and Raymond Firth (PhD, London School of...
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  • 1857 Rebellion. Oxford University Press. p. 200. ISBN 9780195690767. Edmund Leach; S.N. Mukherjee (1970). elites in south asia. CUP Archive. p. 30. Pati...
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  • anthropologists deemed influential to the discipline. Notable speakers include Edmund Leach, Maurice Bloch, Peter Riviere, Tim Ingold and David Graeber. Murdock...
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    David Graeber Lesley Gill Ulf Hannerz Thomas Blom Hansen Ted C. Lewellen Edmund Leach Ralph Linton Elizabeth Mertz Sidney Mintz Sally Falk Moore Rodney Needham...
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  • Darwin's theory of biological evolution to human history and psychology. Edmund Leach, "one of the most impatient critics of Frazer's overblown prose and literary...
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    David Graeber Lesley Gill Ulf Hannerz Thomas Blom Hansen Ted C. Lewellen Edmund Leach Ralph Linton Elizabeth Mertz Sidney Mintz Sally Falk Moore Rodney Needham...
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  • planet Levi Strauss & Co. clothing company Lévi-Strauss (book), a book by Edmund Leach Levi (disambiguation) Levis (disambiguation) Strauss (disambiguation)...
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  • David Graeber Lesley Gill Ulf Hannerz Thomas Blom Hansen Ted C. Lewellen Edmund Leach Ralph Linton Elizabeth Mertz Sidney Mintz Sally Falk Moore Rodney Needham...
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  • of human impact in the far-eastern Pacific" (PDF). In Clark, Geoffrey; Leach, Foss; O'Connor, Sue (eds.). Islands of Inquiry. ANU Press. pp. 281–300...
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  • eloquent, quasi-poetic homilies. Writing in The New York Review of Books, Edmund Leach noted: [The] authors' insistence that between about 4000 B.C. and 100...
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    David Graeber Lesley Gill Ulf Hannerz Thomas Blom Hansen Ted C. Lewellen Edmund Leach Ralph Linton Elizabeth Mertz Sidney Mintz Sally Falk Moore Rodney Needham...
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  • while reviewers praised the writing and storytelling. For example, while Edmund Leach praised The Teachings of Don Juan as "a work of art," he doubted its...
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    Worsley experimented with Marxism and authors such as Rodney Needham and Edmund Leach incorporated Lévi-Strauss's structuralism into their work. Structuralism...
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