Edmund Leach
Edmund Leach
Sir Edmund Ronald Leachwas a British social anthropologist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth7 November 1910
hope thinking ideas
How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the organizational ideas that are present in any society as a mathematical pattern.
sacrifice hands truth-is
Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.
men creating forever
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.
men beast reason
Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
secret privacy source
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.