Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Edmund Leach

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Sir Edmund Ronald Leach FRAI FBA was a British social anthropologist and academic. He served as Provost of King's College, Cambridge from 1966 to 1979. He was also President of the Royal Anthropological Institute from 1971 to 1975.

British - Scientist | November 7, 1910 - January 6, 1989

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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

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

Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.

Edmund Leach

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.

Edmund Leach

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Edmund Leach

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