| How native is a" native" anthropologist? K Narayan American anthropologist 95 (3), 671-686, 1993 | 2723 | 1993 |
| Storytellers, saints and scoundrels: Folk narrative in Hindu religious teaching K Narayan Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1992 | 478 | 1992 |
| Alive in the writing: Crafting ethnography in the company of Chekhov K Narayan University of Chicago Press, 2012 | 279 | 2012 |
| Creativity/anthropology S Lavie, K Narayan, R Rosaldo Cornell University Press, 1993 | 276 | 1993 |
| How Native Is a “Native” I Anthropologist? K Narayan Situated lives, 23-41, 2014 | 253 | 2014 |
| Ethnography and fiction: Where is the border? K Narayan Anthropology and Humanism 24 (2), 134-147, 1999 | 151 | 1999 |
| Mondays on the dark night of the moon: Himalayan foothill folktales K Narayan, UD Sood Oxford University Press, USA, 1997 | 112 | 1997 |
| Personal and Folk Narrative as Cultural Representation [reprint] K Narayan, KM George Postmodern interviewing, 2003 | 97 | 2003 |
| Birds on a branch: Girlfriends and wedding songs in Kangra K Narayan Ethos 14 (1), 47-75, 1986 | 83 | 1986 |
| Refractions of the field at home: American representations of Hindu holy men in the 19th and 20th centuries K Narayan Cultural Anthropology 8 (4), 476-509, 1993 | 74 | 1993 |
| Banana republics and VI degrees: Rethinking Indian folklore in a postcolonial world K Narayan Asian Folklore Studies, 177-204, 1993 | 70 | 1993 |
| According to their feelings”: Teaching and healing with stories K Narayan Stories lives tell: Narrative and dialogue in education, 113-135, 1991 | 69 | 1991 |
| Tools to shape texts: What creative nonfiction can offer ethnography K Narayan Anthropology and Humanism 32 (2), 130-144, 2007 | 68 | 2007 |
| The practice of oral literary criticism: women's songs in Kangra, India K Narayan Journal of American Folklore, 243-264, 1995 | 61 | 1995 |
| My family and other saints K Narayan University of Chicago Press, 2019 | 47 | 2019 |
| Singing from separation: women's voices in and about Kangra folksongs K Narayan | 46 | 1997 |
| Love, stars, and all that K Narayan Gallery Books, 1995 | 43 | 1995 |
| Stories about getting stories: Interactional dimensions in folk and personal narrative research K Narayan, K George The Sage handbook of interview research, 2012 | 40 | 2012 |
| Everyday Creativity: Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills K Narayan University of Chicago Press, 2016 | 34 | 2016 |
| Placing Lives through Stories: Second Generation South Asian Americans K Narayan Everyday Life in South Asia, 2010 | 34 | 2010 |
