| The power of perspective: Social ontology and agency on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu KM Rio Berghahn Books, 2007 | 92 | 2007 |
| Handling sorcery in a state system of law: magic, violence and kastom in Vanuatu. K Rio Oceania 80 (2), 182-197, 2010 | 62 | 2010 |
| The sorcerer as an absented third person: formations of fear and anger in Vanuatu K Rio Social Analysis 46 (3), 129-154, 2002 | 55 | 2002 |
| Hierarchy: persistence and transformation in social formations KM Rio, OH Smedal Berghahn Books, 2008 | 52 | 2008 |
| Pentecostalism and Witchcraft: spiritual warfare in Africa and Melanesia K Rio, M MacCarthy, R Blanes Springer Nature, 2017 | 50 | 2017 |
| Discussions around a sand‐drawing: creations of agency and society in Melanesia K Rio Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 11 (3), 401-423, 2005 | 47 | 2005 |
| Hierarchy and its alternatives: an introduction to movements of totalization and detotalization KM Rio, OH Smedal Hierarchy: Persistence and transformation in social formations, 1-63, 2009 | 46 | 2009 |
| : Introduction to an anthropology of wealth T Rakopoulos, K Rio Towards an Anthropology of Wealth, 1-17, 2020 | 42 | 2020 |
| Policing the holy nation: The state and righteous violence in Vanuatu KM Rio Oceania 81 (1), 51-71, 2011 | 38 | 2011 |
| Kolonitid: nordmenn på eventyr og big business i Afrika og Stillehavet KA Kjerland, KM Rio SAP, Scandinavian Academic Press, 2009 | 34 | 2009 |
| Denying the gift: Aspects of ceremonial exchange and sacrifice on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu K Rio Anthropological Theory 7 (4), 449-470, 2007 | 29 | 2007 |
| Introduction to Pentecostal witchcraft and spiritual politics in Africa and Melanesia K Rio, M MacCarthy, R Blanes Pentecostalism and witchcraft: spiritual warfare in Africa and Melanesia, 1-36, 2017 | 27 | 2017 |
| Totalization and detotalization: Alternatives to hierarchy and individualism KM Rio, OH Smedal Anthropological Theory 8 (3), 233-254, 2008 | 25 | 2008 |
| Made in Oceania: social movements, cultural heritage and the state in the Pacific E Hviding, KM Rio (No Title), 2011 | 24 | 2011 |
| Melanesian egalitarianism: The containment of hierarchy K Rio Anthropological Theory 14 (2), 169-190, 2014 | 23 | 2014 |
| Subject and object in a Vanuatu social ontology: A local vision of dialectics K Rio Journal of Material Culture 14 (3), 283-308, 2009 | 23 | 2009 |
| Securing modernity: Towards an ethnography of power in contemporary Melanesia A Lattas, KM Rio Oceania 81 (1), 1-21, 2011 | 21 | 2011 |
| A shared intentional space of witch-hunt and sacrifice K Rio Ethnos 79 (3), 320-341, 2014 | 18 | 2014 |
| The Third Man": Manifestations of Agency on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu KM Rio Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, 2002 | 14 | 2002 |
| 1968 and its other worlds: global events and (anti-) state dynamics in France, Mozambique and Vanuatu BE Bertelsen, K Rio History and Anthropology 30 (5), 622-643, 2019 | 13 | 2019 |
