Person and Myth: Maurice Leenhardt in the Melanesian World - Hardcover

Clifford, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520042476 ISBN 13: 9780520042476

Publisher: University of California Press, 1982

Synopsis

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 Drawing extensively on unpublished letters and journals, Clifford traces Leenhardt's life from his work as a missionary on the island of New Caledonia (1902 - 1926) to his subsequent return to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. 

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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.

From the Inside Flap:

"Clifford's magisterial biography should make Leenhardt as familiar to us as any other founding father."
--Michael W. Young, Oceania

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0520042476
• ISBN 13: 9780520042476
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 270