RLA: Edmund Leach: A Runaway World 3 1967




Reith Lectures Archive: 1948-1975 show

Summary: Social anthropologist Professor Edmund Leach analyses the human fear of isolation and the limits to interaction we have with other people in the third lecture in his Reith Lectures series 'A Runaway World'. He asks where does our fear of the 'Other' come from, and why do we kill each other?