| “Introduction: After the Return.” JA Bell, K Christen, M Turin Museum Anthropology Review 7 (1-2), 1-21., 2013 | 101 | 2013 |
| Materialising Oceania: New ethnographies of things in Melanesia and Polynesia JA Bell, H Geismar The Australian Journal of Anthropology 20 (1), 3-27, 2009 | 95 | 2009 |
| A bundle of relations: Collections, collecting, and communities JA Bell Annual review of anthropology 46, 241-259, 2017 | 78 | 2017 |
| Looking to see: reflections on visual repatriation in the Purari Delta, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea JA Bell Museums and Source Communities: A Routledge Reader, 111-121., 2003 | 74 | 2003 |
| Promiscuous things: perspectives on cultural property through photographs in the Purari Delta of Papua New Guinea JA Bell International Journal of Cultural Property 15 (2), 123-139, 2008 | 63 | 2008 |
| Introduction: The newness of new media I Gershon, JA Bell Culture, Theory and Critique 54 (3), 259-264, 2013 | 55 | 2013 |
| Documenting discontent: struggles for recognition in the Purari Delta of Papua New Guinea JA Bell The Australian Journal of Anthropology 20 (1), 28-47, 2009 | 42 | 2009 |
| After the return: Digital repatriation and the circulation of indigenous knowledge workshop report JA Bell, K Christen, M Turin Museum worlds 1 (1), 195-203, 2013 | 39 | 2013 |
| Out of the mouths of crocodiles: eliciting histories in photographs and string‐figures JA Bell History and Anthropology 21 (4), 351-373, 2010 | 35 | 2010 |
| Losing the Forest but not the Stories in the Trees J Bell Journal of Pacific History 41 (2), 191-206, 2006 | 34* | 2006 |
| Museums as relational entities: The politics and poetics of heritage JA Bell Reviews in Anthropology 41 (1), 70-92, 2012 | 30 | 2012 |
| Marijuana, guns, crocodiles and submarines: Economies of desire in the Purari Delta JA Bell Oceania 76 (3), 220-234, 2006 | 27 | 2006 |
| Recreating First Contact: Expeditions, Anthropology and Popular Culture. JA Bell, AK Brown, RJ Gordon Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013 | 23 | 2013 |
| THE VERACITY OF FORM: The Veracity of Form: Transforming Knowledges and their forms in the Purari Delta of Papua New Guinea. JA Bell Museum as Process: Translating Local and Global Knowledges, 105-122, 2014 | 19* | 2014 |
| The Anthropology of Expeditions: Travel, Visualities, Afterlives JA Bell, E Hasinof, eds. University of Chicago Press, 2015 | 17 | 2015 |
| Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Cell Phones JA Bell, JC Kuipers Routledge, 2018 | 16 | 2018 |
| Intersecting Histories: Materiality and Social Transformation in the Purari Delta of Papua New Guinea JA Bell University of Oxford, 2006 | 16 | 2006 |
| Ecce Homo: science and society need anthropological collections SB Sholts, JA Bell, TC Rick Trends in ecology & Evolution 31 (8), 580-583, 2016 | 15 | 2016 |
| Dystopian realities and archival dreams in the Purari Delta of Papua New Guinea. JA Bell Social Anthropology 24, 20–35, 2016 | 15 | 2016 |
| The Structural Violence of Resource Extraction in the Purari Delta JA Bell Tropical Forests of Oceania: Anthropological Perspectives, Edited by Bell, J …, 2015 | 14 | 2015 |
Joel KuipersProfessor of Anthropology, George Washington UniversityVerified email at gwu.edu
