Stanley J. Tambiah is the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1954. He joined the faculty at the University of Cambridge, where he taught for ten years, and was a Fellow of King's College. He went to the University of Chicago in 1973, and moved to Harvard Univesity in 1976. He began field work in Sri Lanka (1956-59), the island of his birth, and and later worked in Thailand. He is the author of eight books.
1. Edmund Leach (1910-1989): Achievements
2. Childhood and youth
3. Apprenticeship and the Second World War
4. The anthropologist at work: teacher and theorist
5. The Political Systems of Highland Burma
6. The Frontiers of Burma
7. Pul Eliya: the challenge to the descent group theory
8. Hydraulic Society in Ceylon: contesting Wittfogel's thesis and Sri Lankan mytho-history
9. The engagement with structuralism
10. The comparativist stance: us and them
11. The Structural Analysis of Biblical Narratives (with illustrations)
12. Anthropology of art and architecture (with illustrations)
13. Individuals, social persons and masquerade
14. Leach and Levi Strauss: similarities and differences
15. A Runaway World?
16. British anthropology and colonialism: challenge and response
17. Retrospective assessment and rethinking anthropology
18. The work of sustaining institutions
19. Retirement, retrospection and final illness
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