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 209,039 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Edmund Leach is the 57th most popular anthropologist (down from 49th in 2019), the 3,021st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,611th in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Anthropologist.

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  • 49.71

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  • 20

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  • 5.05

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  • 2.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Edmund Leach ranks 57 out of 93. Before him are Helen Fisher, Bengt Danielsson, Andrey Korotayev, Maurice Godelier, Ralph Linton, and Fei Xiaotong. After him are Fiona Graham, Melville J. Herskovits, Georges Balandier, Jack Goody, Arjun Appadurai, and Johann Carl Fuhlrott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Edmund Leach ranks 221. Before him are Robert Cummings, Saint Alphonsa, Walter Thiel, Carlos Marcello, Charles Crichton, and Robert Buron. After him are Donald Watson, Delfín Benítez Cáceres, Katalin Karády, Willy Ronis, Paul Sweezy, and Karl Zischek. Among people deceased in 1989, Edmund Leach ranks 185. Before him are Sándor Weöres, Ronald Syme, John J. McCloy, Mark Krein, Harald Edelstam, and Richard Quine. After him are Inji Aflatoun, Chico Landi, Hu Die, Leen Vente, Anders Rydberg, and Oleksiy Fedorov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edmund Leach ranks 3,021 out of 8,785. Before him are Jonathan Nolan (1976), Michael Gothard (1939), Brian Blessed (1936), Brian Hart (1936), John Hartley (1849), and David Gregory (1659). After him are Alan Brown (1919), Princess Louisa of Great Britain (1749), Donald Watson (1910), John Lilburne (1614), Allan Ramsay (1713), and Jerome Flynn (1963).

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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 Jack Goody (1919), Ashley Montagu (1905), Marilyn Strathern (1941), Hugh Falconer (1808), W. H. R. Rivers (1864), and Chris Stringer (1947).

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