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Sir Edmund Ronald Leach (November 7, 1910 – January 6, 1989) was a British social anthropologist.

He was provost of King's College, Cambridge from 1966-1979, was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1972 and knighted in 1975. He introduced Claude Lévi-Strauss into British social anthropology.

Bibliography

  • Political systems of highland Burma: A study of Kachin social structure (1954). Harvard University Press
  • Rethinking Anthropology (1961). Robert Cunningham and Sons Ltd.
  • Pul Eliya: a village in Ceylon (1961). Cambridge University Press.
  • A Runaway World? (1968). London: BBC.
  • Genesis as Myth and other essays (1969). Jonathan Cape.
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss (1970). Viking Press.
  • Culture and Communication (1976). Cambridge University Press.
  • Social Anthropology (1982). Oxford University Press.
  • The Essential Edmund Leach Volume 1 and Volume 2 (2001). Yale University Press.

Literature

  • Tambiah, Stanley J., Edmund Leach: An Anthropological Life (2002). Cambridge University Press.

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