| Medusa's hair: An essay on personal symbols and religious experience G Obeyesekere University of Chicago Press, 2014 | 1183 | 2014 |
| Tense past: Cultural essays in trauma and memory P Antze, M Lambek Routledge, 2016 | 858 | 2016 |
| Ordinary ethics: Anthropology, language, and action M Lambek Fordham Univ Press, 2010 | 482 | 2010 |
| Knowledge and practice in Mayotte: Local discourses of Islam, sorcery and spirit possession M Lambek University of Toronto Press, 1993 | 441 | 1993 |
| The construction of religion as an anthropological category T Asad Genealogies of religion: discipline and reasons of power in Christianity and …, 1993 | 420 | 1993 |
| Human spirits: A cultural account of trance in Mayotte M Lambek CUP Archive, 1981 | 395 | 1981 |
| Introduction: forecasting memory M Lambek, P Antze Routledge, 1996 | 393* | 1996 |
| Text-building, epistemology, and aesthetics in Javanese shadow theatre AL Becker Dispositio 5 (13/14), 137-168, 1980 | 389 | 1980 |
| Remembering As Moral Practice M Lambek Tense past: Cultural essays in trauma and memory, 235-54, 1996 | 308 | 1996 |
| A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion M Lambek Blackwell, 2002 | 246 | 2002 |
| The weight of the past: Living with history in Mahajanga, Madagascar M Lambek Springer, 2016 | 244 | 2016 |
| Christians as believers M Ruel Religious organization and religious experience, 9-31, 1982 | 229 | 1982 |
| The ceremonial animal: A new portrait of anthropology W James OUP Catalogue, 2003 | 199 | 2003 |
| The anthropology of religion and the quarrel between poetry and philosophy M Lambek Current anthropology 41 (3), 309-320, 2000 | 177 | 2000 |
| Bodies and persons: comparative perspectives from Africa and Melanesia M Lambek, A Strathern Cambridge University Press, 1998 | 166 | 1998 |
| Toward an ethics of the act M Lambek Ordinary ethics: anthropology, language, and action, 39-63, 2010 | 152 | 2010 |
| 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 | 149 | 1998 |
| Asymptote of the ineffable: embodiment, alterity, and the theory of religion TJ Csordas, F Bowie, MC Dupr, B Hauser, M Lambek, R Littlewood, ... Current anthropology 45 (2), 163-185, 2004 | 148 | 2004 |
| 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, RM Hayden, M Lambek, N Mizrachi, B Rylko-Bauer, ... Current Anthropology 50 (1), 5-27, 2009 | 132 | 2009 |
| Certain knowledge, contestable authority: power and practice on the Islamic periphery M Lambek American Ethnologist 17 (1), 23-40, 1990 | 132 | 1990 |