Quote of the day
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
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)