Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

In 1940 Leach married Celia Joyce who was a talented painter and also publiEdmund Leachd two novels. D. Garland Publishing 1991.

Sir Edmund Ronald Leach (7 November 1910 – 6 January 1989) was a British social anthropologist of whom it has been said:

"It is no exaggeration to say that in Edmund Leacher versatility originality and range of writing he was and still is difficult to match among the anthropologists of the English speaking world".