Edmund Leach

10.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
130 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

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.

In The Last Decade

Edmund Leach

116 papers receiving 3.6k citations

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
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Fields of papers citing papers by Edmund Leach

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# 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
Culture and Practical Reason. breakdown →
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 67
19 3
20
Pulleyar and the Lord Buddha: an aspect of religious syncretism in Ceylon.
14

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