Edmund Leach

10.3k citations
130 papers · 5.2k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 35
Topics
Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (15 papers)Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (14 papers)Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 papers)

In The Last Decade

Edmund Leach

116 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

Culture and Practical Reason.1955202619782002197719551966250500750

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
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#WorkIndexed citations
1 7
2
Anthropology and society
3
3
Culture and human nature
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4
Claude Lévi-Strauss zur Einführung
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5
Talking About Talking About Feudalism
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6
Structuralist Interpretations of Biblical Myth
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7 83
8 31
9 17
10
Culture and Practical Reason.breakdown →
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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
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18 67
19 3
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Pulleyar and the Lord Buddha: an aspect of religious syncretism in Ceylon.
14

About Edmund Leach

Edmund Leach is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Anthropology and Religious studies, having authored 130 papers that have together received 5.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (15 papers), Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (14 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Anthropology (1.4k citations), Geography, Planning and Development (422 citations) and Archeology (62 citations). Edmund Leach has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and South Sudan. Frequent 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. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews.

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