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