埃德蒙·利奇

英国社会学家(1910—1989)

埃德蒙·羅納德·利奇爵士(英語:Sir Edmund Ronald Leach,1910年11月7日—1989年1月6日),英國社會人類學家。

埃德蒙·利奇
Sir Edmund Ronald Leach
出生(1910-11-07)1910年11月7日
 英國錫德茅斯
逝世1989年1月6日(1989歲—01—06)(78歲)
 英國劍橋
國籍 英國
母校劍橋大學
知名於Ethnographic work in Sarawak and Burma
Theories of social structure and cultural change
Kinship as ideal systems
Disagreement with French structuralist Claude Lévi-Strauss[1]
獎項倫敦國王學院教務長 (1966–1979)
Chairman of Association of Social Anthropologists (1966–1970)
大不列顛和愛爾蘭皇家人類學學會會長 (1971–1975)
President of British Humanist Association (1970)
騎士爵位(1973)[來源請求]
大英博物館董事 (1975–1980)[2]
科學生涯
研究領域社會人類學
機構緬甸陸軍
倫敦政治經濟學院
劍橋大學
論文Cultural change, with special reference to the hill tribes of Burma and Assam(1947)
博士導師布朗尼斯勞·馬凌諾斯基
雷蒙德·弗思
博士生弗雷德里克·巴特
受影響自克勞德·李維史陀

他於1966年到1979年擔任英國劍橋大學國王學院總監,1972年獲選為不列顛學院(British Academy)院士,並於1975年獲封騎士爵位[來源請求]。他將李維史陀的思想引進英國社會人類學。代表作品有《高地緬甸的政治體系》。

歷年著作

  • 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)
  • Social Anthropology (Oxford University Press, 1982)
  • ed. The Kula: New Perspectives on Massim Exchange with Jerry W. Leach (Cambridge University Press, 1983)
  • 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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文獻

  • Tambiah, Stanley J., Edmund Leach: An Anthropological Life (2002). Cambridge University Press.

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