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Helen Leach

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New Zealand anthropologist (1945-2026)

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Helen May Leach was a New Zealand academic who specialised in food anthropology.

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2018Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit
2004Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
1980Rhodes Visiting Fellowship

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Helen May Leach was a New Zealand academic who specialised in food anthropology. She conducted research for more than 50 years into the history of New Zealand, the archaeology and anthropology of Oceanic culture, and the social history and anthropology of culinary and horticultural practices, and wrote at least 22 books on these subjects. She was a professor emerita at the University of Otago.

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New Zealand
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Academics
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Academic
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deceased
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Lived 1945 to 2026 · aged 80
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