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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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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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