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.

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.

ee also

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

External links

* [http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/klmno/leach_edmund.html Biography at Minnesota State University website]