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PhD Anthropology University of New Zealand
Masters Anthropology University of Auckland
Bachelors Anthropology University of Auckland

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According to Wikipedia, Helen May Leach is a New Zealand academic specialising in food anthropology. She is currently a professor emerita at the University of Otago. Early life and family Born Helen May Keedwell in Wellington on 3 July 1945, Leach is the daughter of Peggy and Harvey Keedwell. Her older sister, Nancy Tichborne, was a watercolour artist.

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Helen Leach's Published Works

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Human Domestication Reconsidered1 (2003) (128)
An ecological and historical review of bracken (Pteridium esculentum) in New Zealand, and its cultural significance (2005) (92)
Human Domestication Reconsidered (2003) (84)
Intensification in the Pacific: A critique of the archaeological criteria and their application (1999) (79)
Did East Polynesians have a concept of luxury foods? (2003) (48)
1,000 Years of Gardening in New Zealand (1984) (43)
Reconsideration of the Marquesan sequence in East Polynesian prehistory, with particular reference to Hane (MUH1) (1994) (39)
Prehistoric man in Palliser Bay (1979) (33)
OCEANIC ARBORICULTURE AT THE MARGINS?THE CASE OF THE KARAKA (CORYNOCARPUS LAEVIGATUS) IN AOTEAROA (2005) (28)
The terminology of agricultural origins and food production systems—a horticultural perspective (1997) (22)
Gardens without weeds? Pre‐European Maori gardens and inadvertent introductions (2005) (21)
Cooking Without Pots: Aspects of Prehistoric and Traditional Polynesian Cooking (1982) (20)
On the Origins of Kitchen Gardening in the Ancient Near East (1982) (20)
FERN CONSUMPTION IN AOTEAROA AND ITS OCEANIC PRECEDENTS (2003) (17)
Intensification in the Pacific (1999) (17)
Selection and the Unforeseen Consequences of Domestication (2020) (14)
European Perceptions of the Roles of Bracken Rhizomes (Pteridium esculentum (Forst. f.) Cockayne) in Traditional Maori Diet (2001) (8)
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CHRISTMAS CAKES (2003) (8)
Model Gardens and the Acceptability of New Crops to Polynesian Horticulturalists (1983) (8)
The place of Taiaroa Head and other Classic Maori sites in the prehistory of East Otago (1978) (7)
The European house and garden in New Zealand: A case for parallel development (2000) (5)
Cultivating Myths: Fiction, Fact & Fashion in Garden History (2000) (5)
Delayed Eruption of Secondary Dentition associated with Phenytoin Therapy (1991) (5)
Osler Centenary Papers: William Osler in medical education (2019) (5)
Rehabilitating the "Stinking Herbe": A Case Study of Culinary Prejudice (2001) (3)
Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Character Disturbances (1960) (3)
The Pavlova Wars: How a Creationist Model of Recipe Origins Led to an International Dispute (2010) (3)
Introductory oceanography, sixth edition, by H. V. Thurman, Macmillan, New York, 1991. No. of pages: 526. Price: £29.50 (hardback). ISBN 067521317 7 (1992) (3)
The Pavlova Story: A Slice of New Zealand's Culinary History (2008) (2)
Popular diets and anthropological myths. (1989) (1)
John T. Parry. The Sigatoka Valley-pathway into prehistory. Bulletin of the Fiji Museum 9. ix + 157 pages, 18 figures, 6 tables, 25 plates, including stereograms. 1987. Suva: Fiji Museum; paperback $F8. (1988) (0)
Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History By Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney and Aroha Harris Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2014 ISBN 9781927131411. Pp. 543. NZ$100 (hbk). (2015) (0)
Sir Peter Buck and the Samoans (1993) (0)
The Halelea District, Kaua'i, Hawaii. Anthropological Papers, Museum of (2016) (0)
Plant Categories and the Significance of Meaning Changes: The Case of Herbs and Related Terms (1995) (0)
Lesley Montague Groube , 1937–2018: A Biographical Sketch (2018) (0)

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