Dr James Leach
King's College
King's Parade
Cambridge CB2 1ST
UK
Tel: + 44 (0)1223 331432
Email:
james.leach@kings.cam.ac.uk
Website: www.jamesleach.net |
James Leach is Research Fellow in Anthropology, Kingís College,
Cambridge, and Affiliated Lecturer in the Dept. of Social Anthropology
at the University of Cambridge. In September 2006 he took up a
Senior Lectureship at The University of Aberdeen.
James was trained as a Social Anthropologist in Manchester (B.Soc.Sci
1992, PhD 1997) and has undertaken long-term field research on the Rai
Coast in Papua New Guinea (1994-5, 1999, 2000-2001, 2003).
He has published on kinship, creativity, place/landscape and art.
James's subsequent work has focussed on ownership, including ownership
of Intellectual and Cultural Property in Papua New Guinea, and on
knowledge production more widely. He is currently engaged in
comparative research on creativity and ownership in interdisciplinary
collaborations in the UK (artistsí placements in Research and
Industrial contexts), directing Research on Gender and Open Source
Software Development for the European Comission, and on artistsí
relation to law. A new initiative is currently being planned for
research on Institutions, Audit, Value and Personal Relations in Papua
New Guinea. James was Awarded the Royal Anthropological Institute J.B.
Donne Prize in the Anthropology of Art for 1999, and The Philip
Leverhulme Prize in 2004.
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