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.
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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.
See also
- Emile Durkheim
- Sir Raymond Firth
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Bronislaw Malinowski
- Charles Peirce
- kinship
- semiotics
- sign
- structural functionalism
- structuralism
