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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmund Leach has received more than 197,611 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Edmund Leach is the 50th most popular anthropologist (down from 46th in 2019), the 2,617th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,592nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Anthropologist.

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  • 49.97

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Edmund Leach ranks 50 out of 69. Before him are David Graeber, Georges Vacher de Lapouge, Paolo Mantegazza, Maurice Godelier, Gilberto Freyre, and Alfred Sauvy. After him are Louis Dumont, Bengt Danielsson, Andrey Korotayev, Aleš Hrdlička, Michael Harner, and Fei Xiaotong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Edmund Leach ranks 173. Before him are Jean Servais, Vivien Thomas, Lee Wallard, Herminio Masantonio, Douglas Bader, and Gunter d'Alquen. After him are Marc Lawrence, José María Guido, Léon Poliakov, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Aldo Olivieri, and Antal Szabó. Among people deceased in 1989, Edmund Leach ranks 141. Before him are Armand Salacrou, Jean-Michel Charlier, Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, Christine Jorgensen, Harry Andrews, and Wilfrid Sellars. After him are Paul Shenar, Yuliya Solntseva, José López Rega, Alex Thépot, Henri Sauguet, and Robert Webber.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edmund Leach ranks 2,617 out of 7,765. Before him are Rory McCann (1969), Harry Seeley (1839), Norman Lockyer (1836), Kathleen Kenyon (1906), Ron Flowers (1934), and Alan Young (1919). After him are Mary Dyer (1611), Tony Atkinson (1944), Ken McArthur (1881), Edward Granville Browne (1862), Mary Toft (1703), and Ralph Erskine (1914).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among anthropologists born in United Kingdom, Edmund Leach ranks 9. Before him are Jane Goodall (1934), Gregory Bateson (1904), Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881), E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902), Victor Turner (1920), and Mary Leakey (1913). After him are Ashley Montagu (1905), Hugh Falconer (1808), and Alice Roberts (1973).

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