Ethnographic work in Sarawak and Burma Theories of social structure and cultural change Kinship as ideal systems Disagreement with French structuralist Claude Lévi-Strauss[1]
奖项
倫敦國王學院教務長 (1966–1979) Chairman of Association of Social Anthropologists (1966–1970) 大不列顛和愛爾蘭皇家人類學學會會長 (1971–1975) President of British Humanist Association (1970) 騎士爵位(1973)[來源請求] 大英博物館董事 (1975–1980)[2]
Social And Economic Organization of the Rowanduz Kurds (Berg Publishers, 1940)
Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure (Harvard University Press, 1954)
ed. Aspects of Caste in South India, Ceylon and North-West Pakistan (Cambridge University Press, 1960; revised edition 1971)
Rethinking Anthropology (Robert Cunningham and Sons Ltd., 1961)
Pul Eliya: A Village in Ceylon: A Study of Land Tenure and Kinship (Cambridge University Press, 1961)
Dialectic in Practical Religion (Cambridge University Press, 1968)
ed. Structural Study of Myth and Totemism (Routledge, 1968)
A Runaway World? (London: BBC, 1968)
Genesis as Myth and Other Essays (Jonathan Cape, 1969)
Lévi-Strauss (Fontana Books, 1970; new edition 1985)
Claude Lévi-Strauss (Viking Press, 1970; revised edition in 1974; 2nd revised edition 1996)
Culture and Communication: The Logic by which Symbols Are Connected. An Introduction to the Use of Structuralist Analysis in Social Anthropology (Cambridge University Press, 1976)
Custom, Law and Terrorist Violence (Edinburgh University Press, 1977)
Social Anthropology (Oxford University Press, 1982)
ed. The Kula: New Perspectives on Massim Exchange with Jerry W. Leach (Cambridge University Press, 1983)
Structuralist Interpretations of Biblical Myth (Cambridge University Press, 1983)
The Essential Edmund Leach (Anthropology & Society & Culture & Human Nature) ed. by Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw (Yale University Press, 2001, 2 vols.)
ed. Elites in South Asia with S. N. Mukherjee (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
