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 | TambiahÂs task was complicated by LeachÂs bold and iconoclastic stance and the originality, versatility, and breadth of his work: He wrote on kinship, politics, ethnicity, land tenure, economy, biblical texts, art, and architecture, among other topics. |
| Leach combined skills as an ethnographer and an essayist; he also was an effective administrator, a distinguished lecturer, and a public intellectual who contributed to the debate on contemporary culture. |
| Yet, at the same time, Leach criticized Lévi-StraussÂs universalist, reductionist assertions regarding the innate propensities of the human mind, his lack of fieldwork experience, his lack of discrimination in the use of source materials, and his growing disinclination to link myths to their local social, cultural, and material contexts. |
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