Edmund Leach

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:person
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:Clare_College,_Cambridge
gptkbp:birthDate 1910-11-07
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Sidmouth,_Devon,_England
gptkbp:children gptkb:Melissa_Leach
gptkbp:deathDate 1989-01-06
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Cambridge,_England
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Raymond_Firth
gptkbp:doctoralStudent gptkb:Maurice_Bloch
gptkb:Tim_Ingold
gptkb:Mary_Douglas
gptkbp:education gptkb:Clare_College,_Cambridge
gptkb:Marlborough_College
gptkbp:fieldOfStudy structuralism
social anthropology
kinship theory
gptkbp:fieldOfWork anthropology
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:Sir_Edmund_Ronald_Leach
gptkbp:honor knighted
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Edmund Leach
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Maurice_Bloch
gptkb:Tim_Ingold
gptkb:Mary_Douglas
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Claude_Lévi-Strauss
gptkb:Bronisław_Malinowski
gptkb:Raymond_Firth
gptkbp:knownFor structural anthropology
studies of kinship
gptkbp:lecturedAt gptkb:Harvard_University
gptkb:London_School_of_Economics
gptkb:University_of_Cambridge
gptkbp:master gptkb:King's_College,_Cambridge
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:British_Academy
gptkb:Royal_Society_of_Literature
gptkbp:militaryService gptkb:Burma_during_World_War_II
gptkbp:nationality British
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Political_Systems_of_Highland_Burma
gptkb:Pul_Eliya:_A_Village_in_Ceylon
gptkb:Rethinking_Anthropology
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:academic
gptkb:anthropologist
gptkbp:president gptkb:Royal_Anthropological_Institute
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Celia_Joyce_Leach
gptkbp:subjectOf gptkb:Encyclopædia_Britannica
gptkb:Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography
gptkb:Obituary_in_The_Times
gptkbp:termAsMasterEnd 1979
gptkbp:termAsMasterStart 1966
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gptkb:Arnold_van_Gennep
gptkb:Dame_Marilyn_Strathern
gptkb:Leach
gptkb:Marilyn_Strathern
gptkb:Meyer_Fortes
gptkb:Raymond_Firth
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6