Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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)