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Leach, Edmund Ronald was born on November 7, 1910 in Sidmouth, England. Son of William Edmund Leach.
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The North Central Province of Ceylon was the focus of a major civilisation which flourished between the third century BC and the twelfth century AD. The area is an arid plain where habitation is possible only with the help of an elaborate irrigation system; and the existing villages use the same irrigation works as the villages of antiquity. This 1961 book is a detailed analysis of how land was owned used and transmitted to later generations in one of these irrigation-based communities, the village of Pul Eliya. The main emphasis is placed on the way the ties of kinship and marriage are related to property rights and the practices of land use. The approach to this question provides a critical test of certain features of the theory and method of contemporary social anthropology. The factual evidence is very detailed, and the author allows the facts to speak for themselves wherever possible.
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Through the application of anthropological techniques for analysing myth the essays in this 1983 volume offer interesting and thought-provoking structuralist insights for a variety of particular cases in the Scriptures. They also give some account of past interactions between anthropologists and Christian theologians, and enter the debate on the historicity of Biblical events. Edmund Leach has been interested for many years in the implications of a structuralist mode of myth analysis for the explanation of scriptural texts and problems. His essays in this book continue the line of enquiry he first developed in Genesis as Myth (1969) and he pursues his arguments here with characteristic colour and brilliance of exposition. With the two pieces by Dr Alan Aycock on related themes, this volume makes a fascinating and controversial contribution to the study and interpretation of the Bible.
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This book presents a collection of brilliant and provocative essays from Edmund Leach, one of the most original voices in the social anthropological tradition.
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Leach, Edmund Ronald was born on November 7, 1910 in Sidmouth, England. Son of William Edmund Leach.
Student, Marlborough College, 1929. Exhiber., Clare College, Cambridge, England, 1929. Bachelor, Cambridge University, 1932.
Master of Arts, Cambridge University, 1938. Doctor of Philosophy, University London, 1947.
Commercial assistant, Butterfield & Swire, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, 1932-1937;
lecturer, reader social anthropology, London School Economics, 1947-1953;
lecturer, Cambridge U., 1953-1957;
reader, Cambridge U., 1957-1972;
professor, Cambridge U., 1972-1978;
fellow, Kings College, 1960-1966, 79-;
provost, Kings College, 1966-1979. Anthropological field research in Formosa, 1937, Kurdistan, 1938, Burma, 1939-1945, Borneo, 1947, Ceylon, 1954, 56. Member Social Science Research Council, 1968-1971.
Malinowski lecturer, 1959. Reith lecturer, 1967. Frazer lecturer, 1982.
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Trustee British Museum, 1975-1980. Fellow British Academy. Member Royal Anthropological Institute (vice president 1964-1966, 68-70, 75—, president 1971-1974, Curl Essay prize 1951, 57, Rivers medal 1958, Henry Myers lecturer 1966, Huxley lecturer 1980), Association Social Anthropologists (chairman 1966-1970), British Humanist Association (president 1970-1972), American Academy Arts and Sciences (foreign honorary).
Married Celia Joyce Buckmaster, 1940. Children: Louisa, Alexander Bernard.