Edmund Leach

Sir Edmund Ronald Leach
Born(1910-11-07)7 November 1910
Sidmouth, England
Died6 January 1989(1989-01-06) (aged 78)
Cambridge, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materCambridge University
Known forEthnographic work in Sarawak and Burma
Theories of social structure and cultural change
Kinship as ideal systems
Disagreement with French structuralist Claude Lévi-Strauss[2]
AwardsProvost of King's College (1966–1979)
Chairman of Association of Social Anthropologists (1966–1970)
President of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1971–1975)
President of British Humanist Association (1970)
Knighted (1973)
Trustee of the British Museum (1975–1980)[1]
Scientific career
Fieldssocial anthropology
InstitutionsBurma Army
London School of Economics
Cambridge University
ThesisCultural change, with special reference to the hill tribes of Burma and Assam (1947)
Doctoral advisorsBronisław Malinowski
Raymond Firth
Doctoral studentsFredrik Barth

Sir Edmund Ronald Leach FRAI FBA (7 November 1910 – 6 January 1989) was a British social anthropologist and academic. He served as provost of King's College, Cambridge from 1966 to 1979. He was also president of the Royal Anthropological Institute from 1971 to 1975.


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