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Edmund Leach

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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


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The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.


— Edmund Leach


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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.


— Edmund Leach


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In 1940 Leach married Celia Joyce who was a talented painter and also publiEdmund Leachd two novels. D. Garland Publishing 1991.

Sir Edmund Ronald Leach (7 November 1910 – 6 January 1989) was a British social anthropologist of whom it has been said:

"It is no exaggeration to say that in Edmund Leacher versatility originality and range of writing he was and still is difficult to match among the anthropologists of the English speaking world".

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