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    Edmund Leach was initially an engineer who became interested in anthropology. He conducted fieldwork in Botel Tobago, Kurdistan, Burma, and Ceylon. Leach is known for challenging theories of social structure and cultural change in works like Political Systems of Highland Burma. He later focused on structuralism and analyzed the works of thinkers like Durkheim, Malinowski, Brown, and Levi-Strauss. Leach studied how food, dress, houses, and restrictions can act as forms of communication between a culture.

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    Edmund Leach was initially an engineer who became interested in anthropology. He conducted fieldwork in Botel Tobago, Kurdistan, Burma, and Ceylon. Leach is known for challenging theories of social structure and cultural change in works like Political Systems of Highland Burma. He later focused on structuralism and analyzed the works of thinkers like Durkheim, Malinowski, Brown, and Levi-Strauss. Leach studied how food, dress, houses, and restrictions can act as forms of communication between a culture.

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    Edmund Leach

    STRUCTURALISM
    • Engineer by initial education.
    • Contractor
    • Yami of Botel Tobago, an island off the coast
    of Formosa
    • In 1939 he was going to study the Kachin
    BIOGRAPHY Hills of Burma, but World War II intervened
    • Joined the Burma Army
    • After he left the Army in 1946, he became a
    lecturer in social anthropology at the
    London School of Economics
    • In 1954, he published Political
    Systems of Highland Burma. It
    challenged the theories of social
    structure and cultural change.
    BIOGRAPHY… • In 1961, he published Pul Eliya, a
    Village in Ceylon. It was about
    theories of kinship as ideal systems
    • Botel Tobago (an island off
    Taiwan)
    • Kurdistan (the part which is
    Field work now northern Iraq)
    • Burma (Myanmar)
    • Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
    Areas of study

    Initial interest in Kinship His Essay on structuralism


    studies. Later.. To gave an analysis of works
    structuralism and of thinkers like..
    analyzed Levi’Strauss Durkheim, Malinowski,
    works. Brown and Levi’ Strauss
    Areas of study
    • Food, Dress pattern, Houses are a form of communication….
    • He linked food restrictions with sexual restrictions
    • Food and sex metaphors
    • Sex behavior, food behavior, speech behavior
    • He presents comparison of John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth.–
    presented the NATURE CULTURE comparisons
    • This was in the context of myths..
    LANGUAGE
    • Capability of human children speaking is NATURE.
    • Learning different languages that unintelligible is CULTURAL
    • All other ‘CODES’ are types of Language or communication.
    • Leach used MUSIC to explain structure

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