Edmund Ronald Leach

1910 – 1989

British anthropologist

• Political systems of highland Burma
• Claude Lévi-Strauss
• Culture & communication
• Edmund Leach
• Elites in South Asia
• Social anthropology
• Structuralist interpretations of biblical myth
• A runaway world?
• Aspects of caste in south India, Ceylon, and north-west Pakistan
• Custom, law, and terrorist violence
• Dialectic in practical relgion
• Genesis as myth