埃德蒙·利奇

埃德蒙·罗纳德·利奇爵士（英语：Sir Edmund Ronald Leach，1910年11月7日—1989年1月6日），英国社会人类学家。

埃德蒙·利奇 Sir Edmund Ronald Leach
出生	(1910-11-07)1910年11月7日  英国锡德茅斯
逝世	1989年1月6日(1989岁—01—06)（78岁）  英国剑桥
国籍	英国
母校	剑桥大学
知名于	Ethnographic work in Sarawak and Burma Theories of social structure and cultural change Kinship as ideal systems Disagreement with French structuralist Claude Lévi-Strauss[1]
奖项	伦敦国王学院教务长 (1966–1979) Chairman of Association of Social Anthropologists (1966–1970) 大不列颠和爱尔兰皇家人类学学会会长 (1971–1975) President of British Humanist Association (1970) 骑士爵位(1973)[来源请求] 大英博物馆董事 (1975–1980)[2]
科学生涯
研究领域	社会人类学
机构	缅甸陆军 伦敦政治经济学院 剑桥大学
论文	Cultural change, with special reference to the hill tribes of Burma and Assam（1947）
博士导师	布朗尼斯劳·马凌诺斯基 雷蒙德·弗思
博士生	弗雷德里克·巴特
受影响自	克劳德·李维史陀

他于1966年到1979年担任英国剑桥大学国王学院总监，1972年获选为不列颠学院（British Academy）院士，并于1975年获封骑士爵位^{[来源请求]}。他将李维史陀的思想引进英国社会人类学。代表作品有《高地缅甸的政治体系》。

历年著作

• Social And Economic Organization of the Rowanduz Kurds (Berg Publishers, 1940)
• Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure (Harvard University Press, 1954)
• ed. Aspects of Caste in South India, Ceylon and North-West Pakistan (Cambridge University Press, 1960; revised edition 1971)
• Rethinking Anthropology (Robert Cunningham and Sons Ltd., 1961)
• Pul Eliya: A Village in Ceylon: A Study of Land Tenure and Kinship (Cambridge University Press, 1961)
• Dialectic in Practical Religion (Cambridge University Press, 1968)
• ed. Structural Study of Myth and Totemism (Routledge, 1968)
• A Runaway World? (London: BBC, 1968)
• Genesis as Myth and Other Essays (Jonathan Cape, 1969)
• Lévi-Strauss (Fontana Books, 1970; new edition 1985)
• Claude Lévi-Strauss (Viking Press, 1970; revised edition in 1974; 2nd revised edition 1996)
• Culture and Communication: The Logic by which Symbols Are Connected. An Introduction to the Use of Structuralist Analysis in Social Anthropology (Cambridge University Press, 1976)
• Custom, Law and Terrorist Violence (Edinburgh University Press, 1977)
• Social Anthropology (Oxford University Press, 1982)
• ed. The Kula: New Perspectives on Massim Exchange with Jerry W. Leach (Cambridge University Press, 1983)
• Structuralist Interpretations of Biblical Myth (Cambridge University Press, 1983)
• The Essential Edmund Leach (Anthropology & Society & Culture & Human Nature) ed. by Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw (Yale University Press, 2001, 2 vols.)
• ed. Elites in South Asia with S. N. Mukherjee (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

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