Quote of the day
But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.
Edmund Leach

Born: November 7, 1910
Died: January 6, 1989 (aged 78)
Bio: Sir Edmund Ronald Leach was a British social anthropologist.
Known for:
- Political Systems of Higland Burma (1954)
- The essential Edmund Leach
- Rethinking Anthropology (1961)
- Culture & communication (1976)
- Claude Lévi-Strauss (1970)