Quote of the day
I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
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)