| The anatomy of architecture: ontology and metaphor in Batammaliba architectural expression SP Blier University of Chicago Press, 1994 | 435 | 1994 |
| African vodun: art, psychology, and power SP Blier University of Chicago Press, 1995 | 362 | 1995 |
| 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 | 321 | 1991 |
| Royal arts of Africa SP Blier Laurence King, 1998 | 146 | 1998 |
| Art and risk in ancient Yoruba: Ife history, power, and identity, c. 1300 SP Blier Cambridge University Press, 2017 | 69 | 2017 |
| Vodun: West African roots of vodou SP Blier Sacred arts of Haitian vodou, 60-87, 1995 | 68 | 1995 |
| Vernacular architecture SP Blier Handbook of material culture, 230-253, 2006 | 56 | 2006 |
| Imaging otherness in ivory: African portrayals of the Portuguese ca. 1492 SP Blier The Art Bulletin 75 (3), 375-396, 1993 | 56 | 1993 |
| Truth and seeing: magic, custom, and fetish in art history SP Blier Africa and the Disciplines, 139-166, 1993 | 45 | 1993 |
| Words about Words about Icons: Iconologology and the study of African art SP Blier Art Journal 47 (2), 75-87, 1988 | 36 | 1988 |
| Butabu: adobe architecture of West Africa J Morris, SP Blier Princeton Architectural Press, 2004 | 34 | 2004 |
| Kings, crowns, and rights of succession: Obalufon arts at Ife and other yoruba centers SP Blier The Art Bulletin 67 (3), 383-401, 1985 | 32 | 1985 |
| Art in ancient Ife, birthplace of the Yoruba SP Blier African arts 45 (4), 70-85, 2012 | 31 | 2012 |
| Houses are human: architectural self-images of Africa's Tamberma SP Blier The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 42 (4), 371-382, 1983 | 31 | 1983 |
| The path of the leopard: Motherhood and majesty in early Danhome SP Blier The journal of African history 36 (3), 391-417, 1995 | 30 | 1995 |
| African art studies at the crossroads: An American perspective SP Blier African studies: The state of the discipline, 91-107, 1990 | 28 | 1990 |
| L'art royal africain SP Blier (No Title), 1998 | 26 | 1998 |
| Melville J. Herskovits and the arts of ancient Dahomey SP Blier RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 16 (1), 125-142, 1988 | 24 | 1988 |
| Field Days: Melville J. Herskovits in Dahomey SP Blier History in Africa 16, 1-22, 1989 | 23 | 1989 |
| Art Systems and Semiotics SP Blier American Journal of Semiotics 6 (1), 7, 1988 | 23 | 1988 |
