Edmund R. Leach (1910–1989) was a British anthropologist. He is widely credited with introducing Anglophone readers to the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Leach served as provost of King’s College, Cambridge from 1966 until 1979; he was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1972 and knighted in 1975. A two-volume selection of his writings, The Essential Edmund Leach, was published by Yale University Press in 2001.
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Protest
February 27, 1986
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Anthropology Upside Down
April 4, 1974
Reinventing Anthropology edited by Dell Hymes
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The Politics of Karma
November 18, 1971
Buddhism and Society by Melford E. Spiro
Religion and Change in Contemporary Asia
edited by Robert F. Spencer
Islam Observed
by Clifford Geertz
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Mythical Inequalities
January 28, 1971
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca by Anthony F.C. Wallace
Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology by Mary Douglas
Myth: Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures by G.S. Kirk
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Bedtime Story
February 12, 1970
Hamlet’s Mill by Giorgio de Santillana, by Hertha von Dechend
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African Hitler
January 1, 1970
Terror and Resistance by E.V. Walter
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High School
June 5, 1969
The Teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda
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Ignoble Savages
October 10, 1968
Human Aggression by Anthony Storr
Sanity and Survival: Psychological Aspects of War and Peace
by Jerome K. Frank
Non-Violence and Aggression: A Study of Gandhi’s Moral Equivalent of War by H.J.N. Horsburgh
Violence in the Streets edited by Shalom Endleman
War: The Anthropology of Armed Conflict and Aggression edited by Morton Fried, edited by Marvin Harris, edited by Robert Murphy
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Nonsense and Sensibility
May 23, 1968
The Hidden Dimension by Edward T. Hall
The Silent Language by Edward T. Hall
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Brain-twister
October 12, 1967
The Savage Mind
by Claude Lévi-Strauss
Mythologiques: du miel aux cendres by Claude Lévi-Strauss
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Culture Cults
March 9, 1967
The Paths of Culture: A General Ethnology by Kaj Birket-Smith
Stranger and Friend: The Way of an Anthropologist by Hortense Powdermaker
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Don’t Say “Boo” to a Goose
December 15, 1966
On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz
The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry into the Animal Origin of Property and Nations by Robert Ardrey
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Sermons By a Man on a Ladder
October 20, 1966
Mephistopheles and the Androgyne by Mircea Eliade
The Two and the One by Mircea Eliade
The Myth of the Eternal Return by Mircea Eliade
Cosmos and History by Mircea Eliade
Patterns in Comparative Religion by Mircea Eliade
Yoga: Immortality and Freedom by Mircea Eliade
Birth and Rebirth by Mircea Eliade
Rites and Symbols of Initiation by Mircea Eliade
The Sacred and the Profane by Mircea Eliade
Myths, Dreams and Mysteries by Mircea Eliade
Images and Symbols by Mircea Eliade
The Forge and the Crucible by Mircea Eliade
Shamanism: Archiac Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade
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Malinowski Revisited
May 26, 1966
Comparative Functionalism: An Essay in Anthropological Theory by Walter Goldschmidt
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Prejudice
March 17, 1966
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Man and Superman
February 3, 1966
The Living Races of Man by Carleton S. Coon, by Edward E. Hunt Jr.
An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species by Samuel Stanhope Smith, edited by Winthrop D. Jordan
Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race by Ashley Montagu
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Testament of an English Eccentric
September 16, 1965
The Temple and the House by Lord Raglan
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Ladies on the War Path
July 1, 1965
The Lost Universe
by Gene Weltfish
The Warrior Herdsmen by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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A Classic of Anthropology
March 11, 1965
Ancient Society by Lewis Morgan, edited by Leslie A. White