ANTHROPOLOGIST

Edmund Leach

1910 - 1989

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edmund Leach is the 49th most popular anthropologist (up from 57th in 2019), the 2,895th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,022nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Edmund Leach ranks 49 out of 93. Before him are Georges Vacher de Lapouge, Paolo Mantegazza, Lubor Niederle, Louis Dumont, Adolf Bernhard Meyer, and Ralph Linton. After him are Alfred Sauvy, Bengt Danielsson, Gilberto Freyre, Johann Carl Fuhlrott, Maurice Godelier, and Fei Xiaotong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Edmund Leach ranks 184. Before him are Gyula Kállai, Jean Martinon, Gunnar Thoroddsen, Paulette Dubost, Ennio Flaiano, and José María Guido. After him are Olga Bergholz, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Ángel Sanz Briz, Otto Andersson, Else Alfelt, and Francisco Coloane. Among people deceased in 1989, Edmund Leach ranks 156. Before him are Harry Andrews, Ćamil Sijarić, Maurice Evans, Diana Vreeland, Kaj Franck, and Henri Sauguet. After him are Kazimierz Sabbat, José López Rega, Inji Aflatoun, Clyde Geronimi, Luiz Gonzaga, and Merab Kostava.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edmund Leach ranks 2,896 out of 8,785. Before him are Terence Fisher (1904), Ernest Starling (1866), Hubert Parry (1848), Richard Norman Shaw (1831), Andrew Latimer (1949), and André Waterkeyn (1917). After him are Poppy Morgan (1983), Harriet Walter (1950), Charles Lock Eastlake (1793), Kathleen McKane Godfree (1896), Charles Barry (1795), and William Robertson Smith (1846).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among anthropologists born in United Kingdom, Edmund Leach ranks 9. Before him are Edward Burnett Tylor (1832), Gregory Bateson (1904), Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881), E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902), Mary Leakey (1913), and Victor Turner (1920). After him are Ashley Montagu (1905), Jack Goody (1919), Hugh Falconer (1808), Marilyn Strathern (1941), W. H. R. Rivers (1864), and Chris Stringer (1947).

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