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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-leach/men-do-not-have-to-cook-their-food-they-do-so-for-symbolic-reasons-to/)

[Edmund Leach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-leach/)

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## More by 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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-leach/truth-is-a-totality-the-sum-of-many-overlapping-partial-images/)

[Edmund Leach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-leach/far-from-being-the-basis-of-the-good-society-the-family-with-its/)

[Edmund Leach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-leach/)

> [Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-leach/men-do-not-have-to-cook-their-food-they-do-so-for-symbolic-reasons-to/)

[Edmund Leach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-leach/how-can-a-modern-anthropologist-embark-upon-a-generalization-with-any/)

[Edmund Leach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-leach/)

> [The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-leach/the-violence-in-the-world-comes-about-because-we-human-beings-are/)

[Edmund Leach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-leach/)

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