
Person and Myth
Maurice Leenhardt in the Melanesian World
James Clifford(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 15. March 1982
Book
Hardback
284 pages
978-0-520-04247-6 (ISBN)
Description
Originally published in 1982, James Clifford's analytical biography of Maurice Leenhardt (1878 - 1954) - missionary, anthropologist, founder of French Oceanic studies, historian of religion, and colonial reformer - received wide critical acclaim for its insight into the colonial history of anthropology. Drawing extensively on unpublished letters and journals, Clifford traces Leenhardt's life from his work as a missionary on the island of New Caledonia (1902 - 1926) to his subsequent return to Paris where he became an academic anthropologist at the Ecole pratique des hautes etudes, where he followed Marcel Mauss and was succeeded in 1951 by Claude Levi-Strauss.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-04247-6 (9780520042476)
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09/2020
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Person
James Clifford, Professor in the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is the author of The Predicament of Culture and coeditor (with George Marcus) of Writing Culture.