This 1961 book analyses how land was owned used and transmitted to later generations in the irrigation-based village of Pul Eliya.

This book endeavours to test two opposing arguments about the meaning of the term caste.

Combines and applies Marxist materialist and world systems approaches towards social anthropology to a study of the Kachin and related tribal groups of Burma (Myanmar). In ...

This book presents a model for analyzing and evaluating ethnographic arguments. It examines the relationship between the claims anthropologists make about human behavior and ...

Brings together a representative selection of the writings of Edmund Leach.