EDMUND LEACH

'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.

★ ''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.

★ ''Edmund Leach: An Anthropological Life'' (2002). Cambridge University Press.

See also

★ Emile Durkheim

★ Sir Raymond Firth

★ Claude Levi-Strauss

★ Bronislaw Malinowski

★ Charles Peirce

★ kinship

★ semiotics

★ sign

★ structural functionalism

★ structuralism

External links

★ Biography at Minnesota State University website