Clever, or even Clever-Clever
Adam Kuper: Edmund Leach, 23 May 2002
Edmund Leach: An Anthropological Life
by Stanley Tambiah.
Cambridge, 517 pp., £60, February 2002,0 521 52102 5 Show More
by Stanley Tambiah.
Cambridge, 517 pp., £60, February 2002,
The Essential Edmund Leach: Vol. I: Anthropology and Society
by Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw.
Yale, 406 pp., £30, February 2001,0 300 08124 3 Show More
by Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw.
Yale, 406 pp., £30, February 2001,
The Essential Edmund Leach: Vol. II: Culture and Human Nature
by Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw.
Yale, 420 pp., £30, February 2001,0 300 08508 7 Show More
by Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw.
Yale, 420 pp., £30, February 2001,
“... desire to score in argument. ‘His forte was the quick and clever or even clever-clever,’ Stephen Hugh-Jones, a former student, remarks. His old antagonist, Meyer Fortes, the professor of social anthropology at Cambridge, said that Leach had the public schoolboy notion that just by turning an argument on its head you were being original. Leach ... ”
