Edmund Leach  

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"The controversy fuelled by the publication of Edmund Leach's paper 'Virgin birth' (1967) and ..... does not imply ignorance of physiological paternity."--"The Meaning of Paternity and the Virgin Birth Debate" (‎1986) by C Delaney


Leach delivered “Virgin Birth” as the Henry Myers Lecture in 1966.

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Sir Edmund Ronald Leach (7 November 1910 – 6 January 1989) was a British social anthropologist.

Bibliography

  • Social And Economic Organization Of The Rowanduz Kurds (Berg Publishers, 1940)
  • Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure (Harvard University Press, 1954)
  • ed. Aspects of Caste in South India, Ceylon and North-West Pakistan (Cambridge University Press, 1960; revised edition 1971)
  • Rethinking Anthropology (Robert Cunningham and Sons Ltd., 1961)
  • Pul Eliya: A Village in Ceylon: A Study of Land Tenure and Kinship (Cambridge University Press, 1961)
  • Dialectic in Practical Religion (Cambridge University Press, 1968)
  • ed. Structural Study of Myth and Totemism (Routledge, 1968)
  • A Runaway World? (London: BBC, 1968)
  • Genesis as Myth and Other Essays (Jonathan Cape, 1969)
  • Lévi-Strauss (Fontana Books, 1970; new edition 1985)
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss (Viking Press, 1970; revised edition in 1974; 2nd revised edition 1996)
  • Culture and Communication: The Logic by which Symbols Are Connected. An Introduction to the Use of Structuralist Analysis in Social Anthropology (Cambridge University Press, 1976)
  • Custom, Law and Terrorist Violence (Edinburgh University Press, 1977)
  • ed. The Kula: New Perspectives on Massim Exchange with Jerry W. Leach (Cambridge University Press, 1983)
  • Social Anthropology (Oxford University Press, 1982)
  • Structuralist Interpretations of Biblical Myth (Cambridge University Press, 1983)
  • The Essential Edmund Leach (Anthropology & Society & Culture & Human Nature) ed. by Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw (Yale University Press, 2001, 2 vols.)
  • ed. Elites in South Asia with S. N. Mukherjee (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

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