Edmund Leach
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Edmund Leach was a prominent British social anthropologist known for his influential structuralist analyses of kinship and political systems.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edmund Leach canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6869704 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edmund Leach Context triple: [Huxley Memorial Medal, notableRecipient, Edmund Leach]
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A.
Raymond Firth
Raymond Firth was a prominent New Zealand-born social anthropologist best known for his influential work on economic anthropology and his studies of Tikopia society.
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B.
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown was a pioneering British social anthropologist known for developing structural functionalism and conducting influential fieldwork in societies such as the Andaman Islanders and Australian Aboriginal groups.
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C.
Kirkpatrick Durham
Kirkpatrick Durham is a village and civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, historically associated with the parish of Kirkpatrick.
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D.
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
E. E. Evans-Pritchard was a prominent British social anthropologist known for his influential ethnographic studies of African societies and his role in shaping structural-functionalism in anthropology.
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E.
Richard Linton
Richard Linton is an American academic administrator and food science scholar who serves as the president of Kansas State University.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edmund Leach Target entity description: Edmund Leach was a prominent British social anthropologist known for his influential structuralist analyses of kinship and political systems.
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A.
Raymond Firth
Raymond Firth was a prominent New Zealand-born social anthropologist best known for his influential work on economic anthropology and his studies of Tikopia society.
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B.
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown was a pioneering British social anthropologist known for developing structural functionalism and conducting influential fieldwork in societies such as the Andaman Islanders and Australian Aboriginal groups.
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C.
Kirkpatrick Durham
Kirkpatrick Durham is a village and civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, historically associated with the parish of Kirkpatrick.
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D.
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
E. E. Evans-Pritchard was a prominent British social anthropologist known for his influential ethnographic studies of African societies and his role in shaping structural-functionalism in anthropology.
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E.
Richard Linton
Richard Linton is an American academic administrator and food science scholar who serves as the president of Kansas State University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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social anthropologist ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | anthropology ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Cambridge University
ⓘ
Marlborough College ⓘ |
| employer |
London School of Economics
ⓘ
University of Cambridge ⓘ
linked to:
Cambridge University
|
| familyName | Leach ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
kinship studies
ⓘ
political anthropology ⓘ social anthropology ⓘ structural anthropology ⓘ |
| genre |
anthropological monograph
ⓘ
essay ⓘ |
| givenName | Edmund ⓘ |
| influenced |
British social anthropology
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kinship theory ⓘ political anthropology ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Claude Lévi-Strauss ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
kinship systems
ⓘ
myth and symbolism ⓘ political systems ⓘ |
| memberOf |
King’s College, Cambridge
ⓘ
Royal Anthropological Institute ⓘ |
| movement | structuralism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critical engagement with structuralism
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structuralist analyses of kinship ⓘ structuralist analyses of political systems ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Culture and Communication
ⓘ
Genesis as Myth and Other Essays ⓘ Lévi-Strauss ⓘ
linked to:
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Political Systems of Highland Burma ⓘ Pul Eliya: A Village in Ceylon ⓘ Rethinking Anthropology ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
lecturer ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
President of the Royal Anthropological Institute
ⓘ
Provost of King’s College, Cambridge ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Cambridge
ⓘ
London ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
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