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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

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Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

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How can a modern social anthropologist... embark upon generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfying conclusion?... thinking of the organizational ideas that are present in any society as constituting a mathematical pattern.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Edmund Leach

Edmund Leach

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

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