| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Professional Vision | American Anthropologist | 1994 | 2,710 |
| 2 | Sequencing in Conversational Openings | American Anthropologist | 1968 | 1,839 |
| 3 | Memorandum for the Study of Acculturation | American Anthropologist | 1936 | 1,754 |
| 4 | Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others | American Anthropologist | 2002 | 1,576 |
| 5 | Culture as Consensus: A Theory of Culture and Informant Accuracy | American Anthropologist | 1986 | 1,329 |
| 6 | Transnational Human Rights and Local Activism: Mapping the Middle | American Anthropologist | 2006 | 977 |
| 7 | Revitalization Movements | American Anthropologist | 1956 | 822 |
| 8 | The Chinese Concepts of "Face" | American Anthropologist | 1944 | 800 |
| 9 | What Is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis? | American Anthropologist | 1984 | 796 |
| 10 | How Native Is a "Native" Anthropologist? | American Anthropologist | 1993 | 789 |
| 11 | Peasant Society and the Image of Limited Good | American Anthropologist | 1965 | 771 |
| 12 | A System for the Notation of Proxemic Behavior | American Anthropologist | 1963 | 741 |
| 13 | On Key Symbols | American Anthropologist | 1973 | 686 |
| 14 | General Principles of Classification and Nomenclature in Folk Biology | American Anthropologist | 1973 | 668 |
| 15 | The Neglected Situation | American Anthropologist | 1964 | 664 |
| 16 | Verbal Art as Performance | American Anthropologist | 1975 | 654 |
| 17 | Does Biology Constrain Culture | American Anthropologist | 1988 | 613 |
| 18 | Seeing Like an Oil Company: Space, Security, and Global Capital in Neoliberal Africa | American Anthropologist | 2005 | 605 |
| 19 | Giving Voice to Children's Voices: Practices and Problems, Pitfalls and Potentials | American Anthropologist | 2007 | 586 |
| 20 | The Nature of Deference and Demeanor | American Anthropologist | 1956 | 584 |
| 21 | Language, Race, and White Public Space | American Anthropologist | 1998 | 556 |
| 22 | Dialect, Language, Nation | American Anthropologist | 1966 | 548 |
| 23 | Human Territoriality: An Ecological Reassessment | American Anthropologist | 1978 | 526 |
| 24 | Migration in Archeology: The Baby and the Bathwater | American Anthropologist | 1990 | 504 |
| 25 | Abraham Lincoln as Authentic Reproduction: A Critique of Postmodernism | American Anthropologist | 1994 | 503 |
| 26 | Introduction: Toward Ethnographies of Communication1 | American Anthropologist | 1964 | 488 |
| 27 | The Shifting Middle Ground: Amazonian Indians and Eco-Politics | American Anthropologist | 2009 | 484 |
| 28 | Distinguished Lecture: Anti Anti-Relativism | American Anthropologist | 1984 | 473 |
| 29 | Linguistic and Social Interaction in Two Communities1 | American Anthropologist | 1964 | 468 |
| 30 | Cultural Transmission and the Diffusion of Innovations: Adoption Dynamics Indicate That Biased Cultural Transmission Is the Predominate Force in Behavioral Change | American Anthropologist | 2001 | 465 |
| 31 | Cognitive Structure and Informant Accuracy | American Anthropologist | 1987 | 462 |
| 32 | Empowering Place: Multilocality and Multivocality | American Anthropologist | 1992 | 453 |
| 33 | Distribution Patterns of Tropical Plant Foods as an Evolutionary Stimulus to Primate Mental Development | American Anthropologist | 1981 | 434 |
| 34 | Photography in Anthropology: A Report on Two Experiments | American Anthropologist | 1957 | 408 |
| 35 | Tourism in Ghana: The Representation of Slavery and the Return of the Black Diaspora | American Anthropologist | 1996 | 402 |
| 36 | ENERGY AND THE EVOLUTION OF CULTURE | American Anthropologist | 1943 | 392 |
| 37 | Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: A Political Perspective on Culture and Terrorism | American Anthropologist | 2002 | 390 |
| 38 | Anthropological Implications of Sickle Cell Gene Distribution in West Africa1 | American Anthropologist | 1958 | 387 |
| 39 | Cultural Transmission among Aka Pygmies | American Anthropologist | 1986 | 387 |
| 40 | Some Principles of Exchange and Investment among the Tiv | American Anthropologist | 1955 | 386 |
| 41 | Aspects of Group Relations in a Complex Society: Mexico | American Anthropologist | 1956 | 386 |
| 42 | Distinguished Lecture: Facing Power - Old Insights, New Questions | American Anthropologist | 1990 | 386 |
| 43 | Phonetic Ability and Related Anatomy of the Newborn and Adult Human, Neanderthal Man, and the Chimpanzee | American Anthropologist | 1972 | 382 |
| 44 | Semantic Differential Technique in the Comparative Study of Cultures1 | American Anthropologist | 1964 | 380 |
| 45 | Beyond "the State" and Failed Schemes | American Anthropologist | 2005 | 369 |
| 46 | Baby Talk in Six Languages | American Anthropologist | 1964 | 367 |
| 47 | Changes in the Bodily Form of Descendants of Immigrants | American Anthropologist | 1912 | 366 |
| 48 | The Segmentary Lineage: An Organization of Predatory Expansion | American Anthropologist | 1961 | 362 |
| 49 | Wenner-Gren Foundation Supper Conference: Archeological Theory and Method: Some Suggestions from the Old World | American Anthropologist | 1954 | 360 |
| 50 | Population, Exchange, and Early State Formation in Southwestern Iran | American Anthropologist | 1975 | 357 |
