Edmund Leach

Pul Eliya : a village in Ceylon : a study of land tenure and kinship

List of illustrations Acknowledgements Note to Reader 1. Introduction Pul Eliya: the general background 3. The Pul Eliya land map 4. The kinship system 5. Traditional land tenure 6. Non-traditional land tenure 7. The organisation and reward of labour 8. Conclusion Appendices references General index.

Culture and reality

I only met Sir Aubrey Lewis on one occasion and that was in passing. Most of what little I know of his career is derived from the admirable biographical account which Professor Michael Shepherd provided in his Adolf Meyer Lecture delivered to the American Psychiatric Association in 1976 (Shepherd, 1977). But that little is reassuring. Aubrey Lewis clearly took a catholic view of the scope of the field of psychiatry, for at the age of 25 he was combining the study of psychological medicine with anthropological research among the Australian Aborigines! I cannot myself claim this kind of many-sided expertise and, knowing little or nothing about the language or theory or practice of psychiatry, I foresee a problem of communication which calls for the establishment of a frame of discourse.

Two comments on Fredrik Barth's selected essays, Barth's ‘Empirical Science’: A review article

Selected Essays of Fredrik Earth: Vol. 1.: Process and Form in Social Life. pp. 243. £13.95. Vol. 2.: Features of Person and Society in Swat: Collected Essays on Pathans. pp. 190. £12.95. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London.

On the Nature of Caste in India A Review Symposium on Louis Dumont's Homo Hierarchicus : 2 "Esprit" in Homo Hierarchicus

Hom? Hierarchicus is written with great penetration, lucidity and charm, though Dumont never hesitates to attack viewpoints he disapproves of. He carries the weight of a formidable scholarship lightly and with grace. The book has already established itself as an important and controversial work. It has received rich praise (see, e.g., Yalman 1969) but has also been severely criticized (see, e.g., Marriott 1969). It is a book that just cannot be simply brushed aside. The present review symposium is offered as a contribution to the con-

Culture and Communication: The Logic by Which Symbols Are Connected (An Introduction to the Use of Structuralist Analysis in Social Anthropology)

Introduction 1. Empiricists and rationalists: economic transactions and acts of communication 2. Problems of terminology 3. Objects, sense-images, concepts 4. Signals and indices 5. Transformations 6. Theories of magic and sorcery 7. The symbolic ordering of a man-made world: boundaries of social space and time 8. The material representation of abstract ideas: ritual condensation 9. Orchestral performance as a metaphor for ritual sequence 10. The physiological basis of sign/symbol sets 11. Mapping: time and space as reciprocal representations 12. Rank order and orientation 13. Examples of binary coding 14. Mating prescriptions and proscriptions 15. Logic and mytho-logic 16. Basic cosmology 17. Rites of transition (rites de passage) 18. The logic of sacrifice 19. Conclusion Bibliography Index.