| The Routledge encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology A Barnard, J Spencer Routledge, 2009 | 1277 | 2009 |
| Anthropology, politics and the state: Democracy and violence in South Asia J Spencer Cambridge University Press, 2007 | 445 | 2007 |
| Sri Lanka: History and the roots of conflict J Spence Routledge, 1990 | 444* | 1990 |
| Anthropology as a Kind of Writing J Spencer Man, 145-164, 1989 | 290 | 1989 |
| The concept of society is theoretically obsolete M Strathern, J Peel, C Toren Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory, 1990 | 278 | 1990 |
| A Sinhala village in a time of trouble: politics and change in rural Sri Lanka J Spencer Oxford University Press, 1990 | 261 | 1990 |
| Post-colonialism and the political imagination J Spencer Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1-19, 1997 | 184 | 1997 |
| Ethnography after postmodernism J Spencer na, 2001 | 169 | 2001 |
| 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 | 169 | 1990 |
| Collective violence and everyday practice in Sri Lanka J Spencer Modern Asian Studies 24 (3), 603-623, 1990 | 147 | 1990 |
| Demographic review of the UK social sciences D Mills, A Jepson, T Coxon, M Easterby-Smith, P Hawkins, J Spencer Swindon: Economic and Social Research Council, 2006 | 142 | 2006 |
| Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque J Spencer, J Goodhand, S Hasbullah, B Klem, B Korf, KT Silva London: Pluto Press, 2015 | 103 | 2015 |
| British social anthropology: a retrospective J Spencer Annual Review of Anthropology 29 (1), 1-24, 2000 | 92 | 2000 |
| Introduction: the power of the past J Spencer | 83 | 2007 |
| A Nationalism without Politics? The illiberal consequences of liberal institutions in Sri Lanka J Spencer Developmental and Cultural Nationalisms, 210-228, 2013 | 79 | 2013 |
| On not becoming a “terrorist”: problems of memory, agency, and community in the Sri Lankan conflict J Spencer Violence and subjectivity 120, 2000 | 75 | 2000 |
| Sri Lanka: Political violence and ethnic conflict. JD Rogers, J Spencer, J Uyangoda American Psychologist 53 (7), 771, 1998 | 63 | 1998 |
| Conflict and peacebuilding in Sri Lanka J Spencer, B Korf Routledge, 2010 | 59 | 2010 |
| A nation'living in different places': Notes on the impossible work of purification in postcolonial Sri Lanka J Spencer Contributions to Indian sociology 37 (1-2), 1-23, 2003 | 57 | 2003 |
| Occidentalism in the East: The uses of the West in the politics and anthropology of South Asia J Spencer Occidentalism: Images of the West, 234-257, 1995 | 54 | 1995 |
Harini AmarasuriyaSenior Lecturer, Open University of Sri LankaVerified email at ou.ac.lk
