Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1957 The Disintegrating Village. Report of a Socio-Economic Survey. Colombo, Ceylon University Press Board (avec N. K. Sarkar).
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1958 « The Structure of Kinship and its Relationship to Land Possession and Residence in Pata Dumbara, Central Ceylon », Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 88 (1) : 21-44.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1963 « Ceylon », in Bert F. Hoselitz & Richard D. Lambert, eds, The Role of Savings and Wealth in Southern Asia and the West. Paris, Unesco : 44-125.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1966 « Polyandry in Ceylon », in Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, ed., Caste and Kin in Nepal, India, and Ceylon. Bombay-New York, Asia Publishing House : 264-358.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1967 « The Politics of Language in India and Ceylon », Modern Asian Study 1 (3) : 215-240.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1968a « The Magical Power of Words », Man 3 (2) : 175-208.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1968b « Literacy in a Buddhist Village in North-East Thailand », in Jack Goody, ed., Literacy in Traditional Societies. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press : 85-131.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1968c « The Ideology of Merit and the Social Correlates of Buddhism in a Thai Village », in Edmund R. Leach, ed., Dialectic in Practical Religion. London, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology by Cambridge University Press (« Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology » 5) : 41-121.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1969 « Animals Are Good to Think and Good to Prohibit », Ethnology 8 (4) : 423-459.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1970 Buddhism and the Spirit Cults in North-East Thailand. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1973a « From Varna to Caste Through Mixed Unions », in Jack Goody, ed., The Character of Kinship. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press : 191-230.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1973b « Buddhism and This-Worldly Activity », Modern Asian Studies 7 (1) : 1-20.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1973c « The Persistence and Transformation of Tradition in Southeast Asia, with Special Reference to Thailand », Dædalus 102 (1) : 55-84.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1973d « Dowry and Bridewealth and the Property Rights of Women in South Asia », in Jack Goody & Stanley J. Tambiah, eds, Bridewealth and Dowry. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (« Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology » 7) : 59-169.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1973e « Classification of Animals in Thailand », in Mary Douglas, ed., Rules and Meanings. The Anthropology of Everyday Knowledge. Selected Readings. Oxon-New York, Routledge : 127-166.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1976 World Conqueror & World Renouncer. A Study of Buddhism and Polity in Thailand against a Historical Background. Cambridge-New York, Cambridge University Press.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1977a « The Galactic Polity : The Structure of Traditional Kingdoms in Southeast Asia », Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 293 : 69-97.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1977b « The Cosmological and Performative Significance of a Thai Cult of Healing through Meditation », Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 1 (1) : 97-132.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1981 « A Performative Approach to Ritual », Proceedings of the British Academy 65 : 113-169.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1983 « On Flying Witches and Flying Canoes : The Coding of Male and Female Values », in Edmund Leach & Jerry W. Leach, eds, The Kula. New Perspectives on Massim Exchange. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press : 171-200.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1984 The Buddhist Saints of the Forest and the Cult of Amulets. A Study in Charisma, Hagiography, Sectarianism, and Millennial Buddhism. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (« Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology » 49).
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1985 Culture, Thought and Social Action. An Anthropological Perspective. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1986 Sri Lanka. Ethnic Fratricide and the Dismantling of Democracy. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1987a The Buddhist Conception of Universal King and Its Manifestations in South and Southeast Asia. Kuala Lumpur, University of Malaya.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1987b « At the Confluence of Anthropology, History and Indology », Contributions to Indian Sociology 21 (1) : 187-216.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1988 « Ethnic Fratricide in Sri Lanka : An Update », in Remo Guidieri, Francesco Pellizzi & Stanley J. Tambiah, eds, Ethnicities and Nations. Processes of Inter-Ethnic Relations in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. Austin, Rothko Chapel : 293-319.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1989 a « Ethnic Conflict in the World Today », American Ethnologist 16 (2) : 335-349.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1989b « Bridewealth and Dowry Revisited : The Position of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa and North India », Current Anthropology 30 (4) : 413-435.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1990 a « Presidential Address : Reflexions on Communal Violence in South Asia », Journal of Asian Studies 49 (4) : 741-760.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1990b Magic, Science, Religion, and the Scope of Rationality. Cambridge-New York, Cambridge University Press (« The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures » 1984).
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1992 Buddhism Betrayed ? Religion, Politics, and Violence in Sri Lanka. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1996 Leveling Crowds. Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia. Berkeley, University of California Press (« Comparative Studies in Religion and Society » 10).
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1998 « What Did Bernier Actually Say ? Profiling the Mughal Empire », Contributions to Indian Sociology 32 (2) : 361-386.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 2002 Edmund Leach. An Anthropological Life. Cambridge-New York, Cambridge University Press.


