Political systems of highland Burma
Book 1954 • Leach, Edmund Ronald

Kachin • Asia > Southeast Asia
This book is concerned with the Kachin and Shan population of North-East Burma. By the author's admission, the ethnographic information is neither detailed nor new, but rather serves as a vehi...

Pul Eliya, a village in Ceylon
Book 1961 • Leach, Edmund Ronald

Sinhalese • Asia > South Asia
The subject matter of this ethnography is the relation between land use and kinship within the framework of Pul Eliya, a small peasant community in the Kandy area of Sri Lanka. The book provid...

Social and economic organisation of the Rowanduz Kurds
Book 1940 • Leach, Edmund Ronald

Kurds • Middle East > Middle East
Having spent a short time among the Rowanduz Kurds in 1938, Leach wrote this cultural resume, with apology, to fill the need for such a work. In this summary of the culture Leach manages to in...

Concerning Trobriand clans and the kinship category TABU
essay 1971 • Leach, Edmund Ronald

Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
Leach demonstrates in this paper that some of the conclusions reached by Malinowski regarding the concepts of clans and the kinship category TABU, are incorrect. To clarify his position on the...

The structure of symbolism
essay 1972 • Leach, Edmund Ronald

Tongans • Oceania > Polynesia
This source is a reevaluation of the analysis presented in 81: Bott. Leach intends to demonstrate that a structuralist analysis can 'avoid making symbolic substitutions which are not already q...

Appendix
essay 1972 • Leach, Edmund Ronald

Tongans • Oceania > Polynesia
This source is a brief comparison of patrilineal and matrilineal succession in relation to the mythological and kinship relationships between Tongan chiefs and MATAPULES (ceremonial attendants...