| Knowledge and secrecy in an Aboriginal religion I Keen Oxford University Press, 1997 | 423 | 1997 |
| Aboriginal economy and society: Australia at the threshold of colonisation I Keen Oxford University Press, 2004 | 368 | 2004 |
| Being black: Aboriginal cultures in" settled" Australia I Keen Aboriginal Studies Press, 1988 | 212 | 1988 |
| One Ceremony, One Song: An Economy of Religious Knowledge Among the Yolnu of North-East Arnhem Land I Keen PQDT-Global, 1978 | 91 | 1978 |
| Metaphor and the metalanguage:“Groups” in northeast Arnhem Land I Keen American Ethnologist 22 (3), 502-527, 1995 | 79 | 1995 |
| Ancestors, magic, and exchange in Yolngu doctrines: extensions of the person in time and space I Keen Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 12 (3), 515-530, 2006 | 70 | 2006 |
| How some Murngin men marry ten wives: the marital implications of matrilateral cross-cousin structures I Keen Man, 620-642, 1982 | 67 | 1982 |
| Constraints on the development of enduring inequalities in Late Holocene Australia I Keen Current Anthropology 47 (1), 7-38, 2006 | 53 | 2006 |
| Twenty-five years of Aboriginal kinship studies I Keen Social Anthropology and Australian Aboriginal Studies: A Contemporary …, 1988 | 46 | 1988 |
| Alligator Rivers aborigines: retrospect and prospect I Keen Uni. of Qld, 1978 | 43 | 1978 |
| Indigenous participation in Australian economies: Historical and anthropological perspectives I Keen ANU Press, 2010 | 42 | 2010 |
| Definitions of kin I Keen Journal of Anthropological Research 41 (1), 62-90, 1985 | 42 | 1985 |
| Ambiguity in Yolngu religious language I Keen Canberra Anthropology 1 (1), 33-50, 1977 | 40 | 1977 |
| The Western Desert vs the rest: Rethinking the contrast I Keen Scholar and sceptic: Australian Aboriginal studies in honour of LR Hiatt, 65-93, 1997 | 39 | 1997 |
| Aboriginal beliefs vs. mining at Coronation Hill: the containing force of traditionalism I Keen Human organization 52 (4), 344-355, 1993 | 39 | 1993 |
| Yolngu religious property I Keen Hunters and Gatherers (Vol II), 272-291, 2024 | 38 | 2024 |
| Kinship systems: Change and reconstruction R Henderey, I Keen, P McConvell University of Utah Press, 2013 | 36 | 2013 |
| Aboriginal governance I Keen Emergent Inequalities in Aboriginal Australia, Oceania Monograph 38, 17-42, 1989 | 30 | 1989 |
| Foragers or Farmers: Dark Emu and the Controversy over Aboriginal Agriculture I Keen Anthropological Forum 31 (1), 106-128, 2021 | 29 | 2021 |
| Succession to land: Primary and secondary rights to Aboriginal estates N Peterson, I Keen, B Sansom Official Hansard Report of the Joint Select Committee on Aboriginal Land …, 1977 | 29 | 1977 |
