About Edmund Leach is a scholar working on
Political Science and International Relations ,
Sociology and Political Science and
Anthropology .
According to data from OpenAlex, Edmund Leach has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in
Political Science and International Relations , 26 papers in
Sociology and Political Science and 10 papers in
Anthropology . Recurrent topics in Edmund Leach's work include
Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (15 papers),
Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (14 papers) and
Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 papers). Edmund Leach is often cited by papers focused on Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (15 papers), Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (14 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 papers). Edmund Leach collaborates with scholars based in
United States ,
United Kingdom and
South Sudan . Edmund Leach's co-authors include
Marshall Sahlins ,
Michael Banton ,
Marcel Mauss ,
Bernard Cohn ,
Cecil Hobbs ,
Raymond Firth ,
Maurice Bloch ,
Sybille van der Sprenkel ,
M. N. Srinivas and
J. M. Gullick and has published in prestigious journals such as
Nature ,
Science and
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews .
Overview Impact Standout Papers Peers Geography Research Space Co-Authors Works Hit Papers Culture and Practical Reason. 1955 2026 1978 2002 1977 1955 1966 250 500 750 Peers Edmund Leach
Comparison fields: 5 of 151 Sociology and Political Science 2.2k Anthropology 1.4k Political Science and International Relations 1.1k Geography, Planning and Development 422 Philosophy 357 Cultural Studies 314 Social Psychology 306 Demography 267 Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 231 General Health Professions 229 Archeology 225 Paleontology 216 Food Science 188 Language and Linguistics 176 Literature and Literary Theory 173 Religious studies 163 Gender Studies 162 Economics and Econometrics 146 Education 146 Urban Studies 140 History 136 Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 133 Communication 127 Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 120 Visual Arts and Performing Arts 115 Clinical Psychology 115 Health 112 Genetics 89 Linguistics and Language 82 Marketing 74 Safety Research 63 Archeology 62 Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 62 Ecology 62 History and Philosophy of Science 61 Strategy and Management 60 Museology 59 Cognitive Neuroscience 55 General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 54 Soil Science 53 Developmental and Educational Psychology 51 Law 47 Global and Planetary Change 47 Classics 37 Music 36 Water Science and Technology 34 Plant Science 34 Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 32 Development 26 Management Science and Operations Research 26 Public Administration 25 Building and Construction 24 General Social Sciences 24 Human-Computer Interaction 23 Nature and Landscape Conservation 22 Accounting 22 Management of Technology and Innovation 20 Psychiatry and Mental health 20 Information Systems and Management 19 Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 18 Artificial Intelligence 17 General Psychology 17 Finance 16 Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management 14 Ocean Engineering 14 General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 13 Space and Planetary Science 13 Conservation 13 Transportation 10 Management Information Systems 10 Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 10 Applied Psychology 10 Environmental Engineering 10 Reproductive Medicine 10 Computer Networks and Communications 9 Sensory Systems 8 Atmospheric Science 8 Nutrition and Dietetics 8 Pathology and Forensic Medicine 8 General Arts and Humanities 8 Business and International Management 8 Astronomy and Astrophysics 7 Speech and Hearing 7 Epidemiology 7 Molecular Biology 7 Human Factors and Ergonomics 7 Infectious Diseases 7 Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology 6 Small Animals 6 Pharmacy 6 General Decision Sciences 6 Forestry 5 Animal Science and Zoology 5 Agronomy and Crop Science 5 Physiology 5 Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 5 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 5 Surgery 4 Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 4 Information Systems 4 Theoretical Computer Science 4 Developmental Biology 4 Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 4 Statistics and Probability 4 Automotive Engineering 3 Occupational Therapy 3 Issues, ethics and legal aspects 2 Neurology 2 Control and Systems Engineering 2 Oceanography 2 Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation 2 Computer Science Applications 2 Virology 2 Pharmacology 2 Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 2 Genetics 2 Research and Theory 2 Radiological and Ultrasound Technology 2 Geology 2 Computational Theory and Mathematics 2 Modeling and Simulation 2 Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics 2 Hematology 2 Pharmacology 2 Earth-Surface Processes 1 Media Technology 1 Medical Laboratory Technology 1 Insect Science 1 Geophysics 1 Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism 1 Cell Biology 1 Horticulture 1 Computational Mechanics 1 Ecological Modeling 1 Rheumatology 1 Signal Processing 1 Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 1 Aerospace Engineering 1 Clinical Biochemistry 1 Immunology 1 Oncology 1 Geochemistry and Petrology 1 Organic Chemistry 1 Library and Information Sciences 1 Parasitology 1 Biomedical Engineering 1 Materials Chemistry 1 Neurology 1 Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 1 Pollution 1 Nephrology 1
Sociology and Political Science 2.2k Anthropology 1.4k Political Science and International Relations 1.1k Geography, Planning and Development 422 Philosophy 357 E. E. Evans‐Pritchard United Kingdom
Michaël Gilsenan United States
Elizabeth Colson United States
Rodney Needham United Kingdom
S. J. Tambiah United States
Johannes Fabian Netherlands
Marvin Harris United States
Renato Rosaldo United States
Fredrik Barth United States
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All Works Load more (20 of 130) # Work Indexed citations 1 7 2 Anthropology and society
3 3 Culture and human nature
1 4 Claude Lévi-Strauss zur Einführung
1 5 Talking About Talking About Feudalism
1 6 Structuralist Interpretations of Biblical Myth
1 7 83 8 31 9 17 10 753 11 Sistemas políticos de la Alta Birmania : estudio sobre la estructura social Kachin
8 12 1 13 Les Systèmes politiques des hautes terres de Birmanie : analyse des structures sociales kachin
7 14 1 15 48 16 1 17 Institutionen in primitiven Gesellschaften
2 18 1966 · Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · Edmund Leach 67 19 3 20 Pulleyar and the Lord Buddha: an aspect of religious syncretism in Ceylon.
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