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 LeachTruth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.
Edmund LeachMen do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
Edmund Leach