Sir Edmund Ronald Leach (November 7, 1910 – January 6, 1989) was a British anthropologist. He was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1972 and knighted in 1975.

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.
• Culture and communication (1976). Cambridge University Press.
• The Essential Edmund Leach Volume 1 and Volume 2 (2001). Yale University Press.
• Edmund Leach: An Anthropological Life (2002). Cambridge University Press.

See also

• Emile Durkheim
• Bronislaw Malinowski
• Claude Levi-Strauss
• Charles Peirce
• kinship
• semiotics
• sign
• structural functionalism
• structuralism

1910 births | 1989 deaths | Alumni of King's College, Cambridge | British anthropologists

Edmund Leach