The Essential Edmund Leach: Volume 2: Culture and Human Nature

by Edmund Leach

The aim of these two volumes is to bring together a representative selection of the writings of Edmund Leach (1910-1989), a brilliant and prolific anthropologist known not only in his field but to the educated public at large. Leach perceived anthropology as a vital and broadly based study of the human condition, encompassing methods and ideas from the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. His writings reflect the conviction that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300085087
• ISBN13: 9780300085082
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 2.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"