Leach, Edmund Ronald

Leach, Edmund Ronald,

1910–89, British anthropologist, grad. Cambridge (B.A., 1932; M.A., 1938) and Univ. of London (Ph.D., 1947). He was (1957–72) university reader in social anthropology at Cambridge, and in 1972 he was appointed professor. In 1966 he became provost of Kings College. His major areas of study were the kinship, mythology, and social anthropology of South Asia, and structural anthropology. Among his writings are Political Systems of Highland Burma (1954), Pul Eliya: A Village in Ceylon (1961), Rethinking Anthropology (1961), A Runaway World? (1968), Lévi-Strauss (1970), and Genesis as Myth (1970).
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[8.] Leach, Edmund Ronald. 2000a 2.1 Ritual as an Expression of Social Status (1954).
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Leach, Edmund Ronald. Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure.
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Leach, Edmund Ronald. Culture and Communication: The Logic by Which Symbols are Connected.
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