| Legends of people, myths of state: violence, intolerance, and political culture in Sri Lanka and Australia B Kapferer Berghahn Books, 2011 | 1826 | 2011 |
| A celebration of demons B Kapferer Routledge, 2021 | 1034 | 2021 |
| The feast of the sorcerer: practices of consciousness and power B Kapferer University of Chicago Press, 1997 | 567 | 1997 |
| Norms and the manipulation of relationships in a work context B Kapferer [[publisher not identified]], 1969 | 541 | 1969 |
| Strategy and transaction in an African factory: African workers and Indian management in a Zambian town B Kapferer Manchester University Press, 1972 | 473 | 1972 |
| Ritual dynamics and virtual practice: Beyond representation and meaning B Kapferer Social Analysis 48 (2), 33-54, 2004 | 304 | 2004 |
| Performance and the Structuring of Meaning and Experience B Kapferer The anthropology of experience, 188-203, 1986 | 298 | 1986 |
| The distancing of emotion in ritual [and comments and reply] TJ Scheff, BEF Beck, MP Carroll, AK Daniels, R Day, S Fuchs, ... Current Anthropology 18 (3), 483-505, 1977 | 286 | 1977 |
| Situations, crisis, and the anthropology of the concrete: The contribution of Max Gluckman B Kapferer Social Analysis 49 (3), 85-122, 2005 | 242 | 2005 |
| Transaction and meaning: directions in the anthropology of exchange and symbolic behavior B Kapferer (No Title), 1976 | 213 | 1976 |
| Legends of People B Kapferer Myths of State: Violence, Intolerance, and Political, 1988 | 204 | 1988 |
| Introduction: in the event—toward an anthropology of generic moments B Kapferer Social Analysis 54 (3), 1-27, 2010 | 190 | 2010 |
| State formation: anthropological perspectives C Krohn-Hansen, KG Nustad (No Title), 2005 | 185 | 2005 |
| Beyond rationalism: Rethinking magic, witchcraft and sorcery B Kapferer Berghahn Books, 2003 | 171* | 2003 |
| Writing within: anthropology, nationalism, and culture in Sri Lanka [and comments and reply] J Spencer, R Handler, B Kapferer, RS Khare, DB McGilvray, ... Current Anthropology 31 (3), 283-300, 1990 | 171 | 1990 |
| Introduction: Outside all reason—magic, sorcery and epistemology in anthropology B Kapferer Social Analysis 46 (3), 1-30, 2002 | 162 | 2002 |
| Mind, self, and other in demonic illness: The negation and reconstruction of self B Kapferer American Ethnologist 6 (1), 110-133, 1979 | 151 | 1979 |
| Forms of Joking Activity: A Comparative Approach1 D Handelman, B Kapferer American anthropologist 74 (3), 484-517, 1972 | 146 | 1972 |
| Social network and conjugal role in urban Zambia: Towards a reformulation of the Bott hypothesis B Kapferer Network analysis: Studies in human interaction, 83-110, 1973 | 142 | 1973 |
| Introduction: ritual process and the transformation of context B Kapferer Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice, 3-19, 1979 | 137 | 1979 |
