Not to be confused with Edmund Leach (British Army officer).
Sir Edmund Ronald Leach
Born
(1910-11-07)7 November 1910
Sidmouth, England
Died
6 January 1989(1989-01-06) (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
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Political and legal anthropology
Basic concepts
Status and rank
Ascribed status
Achieved status
Social status
Caste
Age grade/Age set
Leveling mechanism
Leadership
Big man
Patriarchy
Matriarchy
Elder
Pantribal sodalities
Chief
Paramount chief
Polities
Band society
Segmentary lineage
Tribe
Chiefdom
Petty kingdom
House society
Ethnic group
Theatre state
Law and custom
Customary law
Legal culture
Case studies
Acephelous
Societies without hierarchical leaders
African Political Systems
Papuan Big man system
The Art of Not Being Governed
State
Non-western state systems
Negara
Mandala
Technology, Tradition, and the State in Africa
Legal systems
Kapu
Colonialism and resistance
Europe and the People Without History
Cargo cult
Major theorists
E. Adamson Hoebel
Georges Balandier
F. G. Bailey
Fredrik Barth
Jeremy Boissevain
Robert L. Carneiro
Henri J. M. Claessen
Jean Comaroff
John Comaroff
Pierre Clastres
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
Wolfgang Fikentscher
Meyer Fortes
Morton Fried
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
Ernest Gellner
David Graeber
Lesley Gill
Ulf Hannerz
Thomas Blom Hansen
Ted C. Lewellen
Edmund Leach
Ralph Linton
Elizabeth Mertz
Sidney Mintz
Sally Falk Moore
Rodney Needham
Marshall Sahlins
James C. Scott
Elman Service
Aidan Southall
Jonathan Spencer
Bjorn Thomassen
Douglas R. White
Eric Wolf
Related articles
Circumscription theory
Legal anthropology
Left–right paradigm
State formation
Political economy in anthropology
Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems
Journals
Political and Legal Anthropology Review
Journal of Legal Anthropology
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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.
^Tambiah, Stanley J (2002) "Edmund Leach: an Anthropological life" Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Accessed 6 May 2010
^Meiser, Heather (2007) "Edmund Ronald Leach 1910-1989" E-Museum @ Minnesota State University webpage" Archived 17 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 6 May 2010
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...
Family (2003–2007). Leach was born at Much Wenlock, Shropshire. Her parents were teachers, related to the social anthropologist EdmundLeach; she attended Oswestry...
Jung, SAGE Publications, ISBN 978-0761962373, pp 56 Edmund Ronald Leach, The Essential EdmundLeach: Culture and human nature, Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0300085082...
Lévi-Strauss himself and the British neo-structuralists Rodney Needham and EdmundLeach. The latter was the author of such essays as "Time and False Noses" (in...
David Graeber Lesley Gill Ulf Hannerz Thomas Blom Hansen Ted C. Lewellen EdmundLeach Ralph Linton Elizabeth Mertz Sidney Mintz Sally Falk Moore Rodney Needham...
Chitpavans as they went about settling down. Gordon Johnson (1970). EdmundLeach; S.N.Mukherjee (eds.). elites in south asia. Cambridge University Press...
Rites in the Trobriand Islands Leach, Edmund (1954): Political systems of Highland Burma. London: G. Bell. Leach, Edmund (1982): Social Anthropology Eriksen...
having in all instances some expressive or symbolic element in them." EdmundLeach, in contrast, saw ritual and technical action less as separate structural...
no doors, and they lacked a boundary wall. In most cultures, suggests EdmundLeach, a boundary and gateway separates the secular and the sacred, and this...
officers and they fought the Japanese in the jungle of north Burma. EdmundLeach set up the Levies at Fort Hertz, and they were initially placed under...
EdmundLeach Chadwick (31 August 1847 – 6 August 1918) was an English cricketer who played for Lancashire County Cricket Club. He appeared in 13 first-class...
August 2007. Retrieved 19 August 2007. "Review of EdmundLeach: An Anthropological Life by EdmundLeach; Stanley Tambiah". Anthropology Today, Vol. 21,...
the woman are the recognized legitimate offspring of both partners." EdmundLeach argued that no one definition of marriage applied to all cultures, but...
Leach, Bernard; De Waal, Edmund, eds. (1997). Bernard Leach. St. Ives artists. London: Tate Gallery Publ. ISBN 978-1-85437-227-7. Though Leach wrote...
Sanders Peirce Icon Icon (computing) Ideogram Interpretation of dreams EdmundLeach Claude Lévi-Strauss List of symbols Logotype Map-territory relation –...
(Claude Levi-Strauss: Oysters, Smoked Salmon, and Stilton Cheese) by EdmundLeach Le triangle culinaire sur Palimpsestes Le triangle culinaire (1965) sur...
anthropologists deemed influential to the discipline. Notable speakers include EdmundLeach, Maurice Bloch, Peter Riviere, Tim Ingold and David Graeber. Murdock...
David Graeber Lesley Gill Ulf Hannerz Thomas Blom Hansen Ted C. Lewellen EdmundLeach Ralph Linton Elizabeth Mertz Sidney Mintz Sally Falk Moore Rodney Needham...
of human impact in the far-eastern Pacific" (PDF). In Clark, Geoffrey; Leach, Foss; O'Connor, Sue (eds.). Islands of Inquiry. ANU Press. pp. 281–300...
Worsley experimented with Marxism and authors such as Rodney Needham and EdmundLeach incorporated Lévi-Strauss's structuralism into their work. Structuralism...
Darwin's theory of biological evolution to human history and psychology. EdmundLeach, "one of the most impatient critics of Frazer's overblown prose and literary...
David Graeber Lesley Gill Ulf Hannerz Thomas Blom Hansen Ted C. Lewellen EdmundLeach Ralph Linton Elizabeth Mertz Sidney Mintz Sally Falk Moore Rodney Needham...
1857 Rebellion. Oxford University Press. p. 200. ISBN 9780195690767. EdmundLeach; S.N. Mukherjee (1970). elites in south asia. CUP Archive. p. 30. Pati...
while reviewers praised the writing and storytelling. For example, while EdmundLeach praised The Teachings of Don Juan as "a work of art," he doubted its...
anthropologist EdmundLeach wrote a series of critical articles, one of which was featured as the lead in Anthropology Today, vol. 1 (1985). Leach criticised...
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