| Playing with time: art and performance in central Mali MJ Arnoldi | 119 | 1995 |
| African material culture MJ Arnoldi, KL Hardin Indiana University Press, 1996 | 109 | 1996 |
| Crowning achievements: African arts of dressing the head MJ Arnoldi, CM Kreamer African Arts 28 (1), 22-98, 1995 | 68 | 1995 |
| Symbolically inscribing the city: Public monuments in Mali, 1995-2002 MJ Arnoldi African Arts 36 (2), 56, 2003 | 50 | 2003 |
| Youth festivals and museums: the cultural politics of public memory in postcolonial Mali MJ Arnoldi Africa Today, 55-76, 2006 | 49 | 2006 |
| From the Diorama to the Dialogic: A Century of Exhibiting Africa at the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History (Du Diorama au dialogue: un siècle d'exposition sur l'Afrique au … MJ Arnoldi Cahiers d'etudes africaines, 701-726, 1999 | 39 | 1999 |
| Rethinking Defintions of African Traditional and Popular Arts MJ Arnoldi African Studies Review 30 (3), 79-84, 1987 | 39 | 1987 |
| Bamako, Mali: monuments and modernity in the urban imagination MJ Arnoldi Africa Today, 3-24, 2007 | 38 | 2007 |
| Introduction: Efficacy and objects KL Hardin, MJ Arnoldi African material culture, 1-28, 1996 | 34 | 1996 |
| overcoming a Colonial legacy: The new national Museum in Mali: 1976 to the Present MJ Arnoldi Museum Anthropology 22 (3), 28-40, 1999 | 30 | 1999 |
| Reflections on" African voices" at the Smithsonian's National Museum of natural history MJ Arnoldi, CM Kreamer, MA Mason African Arts 34 (2), 16-38, 2001 | 28 | 2001 |
| A distorted mirror: the exhibition of the Herbert Ward Collection of Africana MJ Arnoldi Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture, 428-57, 1992 | 26 | 1992 |
| Puppet theatre in the Segu region in Mali MJ Arnoldi Indiana University, 1983 | 20 | 1983 |
| Playing the puppets: Innovation and rivalry in Bamana Youth Theatre of Mali MJ Arnoldi TDR (1988-) 32 (2), 65-82, 1988 | 18 | 1988 |
| Puppet theatre: Form and ideology in Bamana performances MJ Arnoldi Empirical Studies of the Arts 4 (2), 131-150, 1986 | 17 | 1986 |
| Where art and ethnology met: the Ward African Collection at the Smithsonian MJ Arnoldi | 15 | 1998 |
| The artistic heritage of Somalia MJ Arnoldi African arts 17 (4), 24-33, 1984 | 14 | 1984 |
| Gifts from the Queen: Two Malagasy Lamba Akotofahana at the Smithsonian Institution MJ Arnoldi Objects as envoys: cloth, imagery, and diplomacy in Madagascar, 95-119, 2002 | 13 | 2002 |
| Bamana and Bozo Puppetry of the Segou Region Youth Societys MJ Arnoldi Purdue University, 0 | 11 | |
| The Sogow: Imagining a Moral Universe Through Sogo bo Masquerades MJ Arnoldi Bamana: The Art of Existence in Mali, ed. Jean-Paul Colleyn, 77-93, 2001 | 9 | 2001 |
