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Edmund Leach on Roman Jakobson's Contributions to Linguistics
The Vault
59 minutes
2 years ago
Edmund Leach on Roman Jakobson's Contributions to Linguistics
In this episode from the Institute’s Vault, we hear the1982 Gallatin Lecture, in which Sir Edmund Leach discussed the work of Roman Jakobson, who he met in 1960, at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Jakobson was one of the pioneers of structural linguistics, and a major influence on Claude Levi-Strauss and Roland Barthes. He taught at Harvard from 1940 until his retirement in 1967. Leach was a British social anthropologist, and the provost of King's College, Cambridge from 1966 to 1979.
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The Vault
Select lectures and conversations from the New York Institute for the Humanities' forty-year archive.
