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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.

Edmund Leach

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.

Edmund Leach

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.

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:

Political Systems of Higland Burma (1954)
The essential Edmund Leach
Rethinking Anthropology (1961)
Culture & communication (1976)
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1970)

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