Helen Leach
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New Zealand anthropologist
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Helen Leach's Degrees
- PhD Anthropology University of New Zealand
- Masters Anthropology University of Auckland
- Bachelors Anthropology University of Auckland
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)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.
Helen Leach's Published Works
Published Works
- 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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