Mrs. Leslie Milne

{{short description|British anthropologist}}

{{For|the athlete|Leslie Milne (field hockey)}}

Mary Lewis Harper Milne known as Mrs. Leslie Milne (1860–1932) was an English anthropologist who traveled extensively and wrote about the ethnic peoples of the Shan State in Northern Burma. Her best known book, The Shans at Home,Milne, Mrs. Leslie (1910) The Shans at Home John Murray, London, {{OCLC|58875322}} was an account of the cultural practices and day-to-day life of the Shan people of the village of Namkham in Shan State and was based on the many months she spent living in that village. She was also the author of The Home of an Eastern Clan,Milne, Mrs. Leslie (1924) The Home of an Eastern Clan: A study of the Palaungs of the Shan states Clarendon Press, Oxford, England, {{OCLC|5226811}} a book about the life and culture of the Palaung people, and wrote the first,Blagdeb, C. O. (1933) "Review of A Dictionary of English-Palaung and Palaung-English" Man 33: p. 23 and what is possibly the only English-Palaung dictionary. Writing about The Shans at Home and her book on Palaung grammar, The New York Times commented "it would be hard to find a more complete and yet readable account of the habits, customs, and religious ideas of a tribe or small nation than the ones she has given of the Palaungs" and called The Home of an Eastern Clan a "mine of information" for

ethnologists.{{Cite news|title=Polite Customs of the Palaungs|first=Charles|last=de Kay|date=18 January 1925|newspaper=The New York Times|page=51|url=https://nyti.ms/2AoyMN6}}