Edmund Leach: An anthropological Life

Edmund Leach (1910-1989): Achievements; Childhood and youth; Apprenticeship and the Second World War; The anthropologist at work: teacher and theorist; The political systems of Highland Birmania; The frontiers of Burma; Pul Eliya: the challenge to descent group theory; Hydraulic society in Ceylon: contesting Wittfogel´ s thesis and Sri Lankan mytho-history; The engagement with structuralism; The comparitivist stance: us and them and the translation of cultures; The structurral analysis of biblical narratives; Anthropology of art and architecture; Individuals, social persons, and masquerade; Leach and Lévi-Strauss: similarities and differences; A runaway world?.