The Papers of Edmund Ronald Leach 1822-1989 (Mainly 1930s - 1989)

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The Papers of Edmund Ronald Leach 1822-1989 (Mainly 1930s - 1989)

86 boxes and 2 shelves

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Edmund Ronald Leach was born on 7 November 1910 at Sidmouth. He attended Marlborough College, and won an Exhibition to Clare College, Cambridge, matriculating in 1929. He studied mathematics for the first year, then engineering, achieving a First in 1932. After Cambridge, Leach worked initially as a commercial assistant for Butterfield and Swire in Shanghai, spending his holidays travelling around the country. He undertook anthropological field research in Botel Tobago, ...