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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.

Edmund Leach

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Edmund Leach
Age: 78 †
Born: 1910
Born: November 7
Died: 1989
Died: January 6
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Sir Edmund Ronald Leach
Edmund R. Leach
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