| Medusa's hair: An essay on personal symbols and religious experience G Obeyesekere University of Chicago Press, 2014 | 1400 | 2014 |
| Tense past: Cultural essays in trauma and memory P Antze, M Lambek Routledge, 2016 | 1021 | 2016 |
| The construction of religion as an anthropological category T Asad Genealogies of religion: discipline and reasons of power in Christianity and …, 1993 | 826* | 1993 |
| Ordinary ethics: Anthropology, language, and action M Lambek Fordham Univ Press, 2010 | 697 | 2010 |
| Knowledge and practice in Mayotte M Lambek Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte, 2016 | 552 | 2016 |
| Human spirits: A cultural account of trance in Mayotte M Lambek CUP Archive, 1981 | 470 | 1981 |
| Introduction: forecasting memory M Lambek, P Antze Routledge, 1996 | 460* | 1996 |
| Text-building, epistemology, and aesthetics in Javanese shadow theatre AL Becker Dispositio 5 (13/14), 137-168, 1980 | 433 | 1980 |
| The past imperfect: remembering as moral practice M Lambek Routledge, 1996 | 374 | 1996 |
| The weight of the past: Living with history in Mahajanga, Madagascar M Lambek Springer, 2016 | 317 | 2016 |
| Christians as believers M Ruel Ritual and Religious Belief, 242-264, 2017 | 276 | 2017 |
| The ceremonial animal: A new portrait of anthropology W James OUP Catalogue, 2003 | 229 | 2003 |
| The anthropology of religion and the quarrel between poetry and philosophy M Lambek Current anthropology 41 (3), 309-320, 2000 | 219 | 2000 |
| Toward an ethnography of silence: The lived presence of the past in the everyday life of Holocaust trauma survivors and their descendants in Israel CA Kidron Current Anthropology 50 (1), 5-27, 2009 | 218 | 2009 |
| Toward an ethics of the act M Lambek Ordinary ethics: anthropology, language, and action, 39-63, 2010 | 200 | 2010 |
| Bodies and persons: comparative perspectives from Africa and Melanesia R Astuti, ES Lipuma, E Corin, R Devisch, S Bamford Cambridge University Press, 1998 | 192 | 1998 |
| Asymptote of the ineffable: embodiment, alterity, and the theory of religion TJ Csordas Current anthropology 45 (2), 163-185, 2004 | 189 | 2004 |
| Body and mind in mind, body and mind in body: Some anthropological interventions in a long conversation M Lambek Bodies and persons: Comparative perspectives from Africa and Melanesia, 103-123, 1998 | 181 | 1998 |
| Witchcraft and sexual relations: An exploration in the social and semantic implications of the structure of belief RC Kelly Man and woman in the New Guinea Highlands, 36-53, 1976 | 169 | 1976 |
| Value and virtue M Lambek Anthropological Theory 8 (2), 133-157, 2008 | 168 | 2008 |