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

Social anthropology is the branch of anthropology that studies how currently living human beings behave in social groups. Practitioners of social anthropology investigate, often through long term, intensive Fieldwork , the social organization of a particular people: Convention , economics and Politics organization, law and conflict resolutio...
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He was provost of King's College, Cambridge
King's College, Cambridge

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 from 1966-1979, was made a Fellow of the British Academy
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 in 1972 and knighted in 1975. He introduced Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude L?vi-Strauss is a French anthropologist....
 into British social anthropology.








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Sir Edmund Ronald Leach (7 November 1910 – 6 January 1989) was a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 social anthropologist
Social anthropology

Social anthropology is the branch of anthropology that studies how currently living human beings behave in social groups. Practitioners of social anthropology investigate, often through long term, intensive Fieldwork , the social organization of a particular people: Convention , economics and Politics organization, law and conflict resolutio...
.

He was provost of King's College, Cambridge
King's College, Cambridge

King's College, Cambridge is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and St. Nicholas in Cambridge, it is referred to as King's within the university....
 from 1966-1979, was made a Fellow of the British Academy
British Academy

The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established by Royal Charter in 1902, and is a fellowship of more than 800 scholars....
 in 1972 and knighted in 1975. He introduced Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude L?vi-Strauss is a French anthropologist....
 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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    Raymond Firth

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  • Claude Lévi-Strauss
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