| Dogon restudied: A field evaluation of the work of Marcel Griaule [and comments and replies] WEA Van Beek, RMA Bedaux, SP Blier, J Bouju, PI Crawford, M Douglas, ... Current anthropology 32 (2), 139-167, 1991 | 323 | 1991 |
| 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 | 297 | 1977 |
| Africa explores: 20th century African art SM Vogel | 264 | 1991 |
| Symbols for communication: An introduction to the anthropological study of religion J Baal, WEA van Beek Studies of developing countries 11, 1985 | 225 | 1985 |
| Religion in Africa: experience & expression TD Blakely, WEA van Beek, DL Thomson, LH Adams, ME Oates J. Currey, 1994 | 118* | 1994 |
| The Dogon and their trees WEA Van Beek, PM Banga Bush base, forest farm, 57-75, 2002 | 113 | 2002 |
| The dirty smith: Smell as a social frontier among the Kapsiki/Higi of North Cameroon and North-Eastern Nigeria WEA Van Beek Africa 62 (1), 38-58, 1992 | 105 | 1992 |
| Religion in Africa TD Blakely, WEA Van Beek, DL Thomson African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter 4 (2), 11, 1997 | 78 | 1997 |
| African tourist encounters: Effects of tourism on two West African societies WEA Van Beek Africa 73 (2), 251-289, 2003 | 77 | 2003 |
| Twins in African and diaspora cultures: Double trouble, twice blessed PM Peek Indiana University Press, 2011 | 50 | 2011 |
| The dancing dead: Ritual and religion among the Kapsiki/Higi of North Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria WEA Van Beek Oxford University Press, 2012 | 45 | 2012 |
| Haunting Griaule: experiences from the restudy of the Dogon WEA Van Beek History in Africa 31, 43-68, 2004 | 44 | 2004 |
| The innocent sorcerer; coping with evil in two African societies, Kapsiki and Dogon WEA Van Beek, T Blakely, DL Thomson African religion: Experience and expression, 196-228, 1994 | 43 | 1994 |
| Enter the bush: a Dogon mask festival WEA Van Beek Africa explores: 20th century African art, 56-73, 1991 | 42 | 1991 |
| Mormon Europeans or European Mormons? An" Afro-European" View on Religious Colonization. WEA Van Beek Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 38 (4), 2005 | 41 | 2005 |
| Processes and limitations of Dogon agricultural knowledge WEA Van Beek An anthropological critique of development, 55-72, 2002 | 41 | 2002 |
| The Kapsiki of the Mandara hills WEA Van Beek Waveland Press, 1987 | 41 | 1987 |
| The Creative Communion: African folk models of fertility and the regeneration of life A Jacobson-Widding, W Van Beek Almqvist & Wiksell, 1990 | 40 | 1990 |
| Dogon: Africa’s People of the Cliffs WEA Van Beek, S Hollyman Abrams, New York, 2001 | 37 | 2001 |
| Dogon religie: Afrika en Sirius? WEA van Beek Afrikaanse religies, 99-113, 1994 | 36 | 1994 |
