Sir Edmund Ronald Leach | |
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| Born | 7 November 1910 Sidmouth, England |
| Died | 6 January 1989 (aged 78) Cambridge, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University |
| Known for | Ethnographic work in Sarawak and Burma Theories of social structure and cultural change Kinship as ideal systems Disagreement with French structuralist Claude Lévi-Strauss[2] |
| Awards | Provost 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 | |
| Fields | social anthropology |
| Institutions | Burma Army London School of Economics Cambridge University |
| Thesis | Cultural change, with special reference to the hill tribes of Burma and Assam (1947) |
| Doctoral advisors | Bronisław Malinowski Raymond Firth |
| Doctoral students | [Fredrik Barth Jonathan Parry] |
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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.