| Demand sharing: reciprocity and the pressure for generosity among foragers N Peterson American anthropologist 95 (4), 860-874, 1993 | 825 | 1993 |
| Why hunter-gatherers work: An ancient version of the problem of public goods [and comments and reply] K Hawkes, J Altman, S Beckerman, RR Grinker, H Harpending, RJ Jeske, ... Current anthropology 34 (4), 341-361, 1993 | 616 | 1993 |
| Photography's other histories C Pinney, N Peterson Duke University Press, 2003 | 469 | 2003 |
| Hunter‐Gatherer Territoriality: The Perspective from Australia1 N Peterson American Anthropologist 77 (1), 53-68, 1975 | 180 | 1975 |
| Tribes and boundaries in Australia N Peterson (No Title), 1976 | 157 | 1976 |
| Australian territorial organization: a band perspective N Peterson, JPM Long University of Sydney, 1986 | 149 | 1986 |
| Citizenship and indigenous Australians: Changing conceptions and possibilities N Peterson, W Sanders Cambridge University Press, 1998 | 143 | 1998 |
| Some major problems in the social anthropology of hunter-gatherers [and Comments and Reply] A Testart, B Arcand, T Ingold, D Legros, A Linkenbach, J Morton, ... Current Anthropology 29 (1), 1-31, 1988 | 136 | 1988 |
| Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land DF Thomson, N Peterson (No Title), 2003 | 130 | 2003 |
| The natural and cultural areas of Aboriginal Australia: a preliminary analysis of population groupings with adaptive significance N Peterson Tribes and boundaries in Australia, 50-71, 1976 | 130 | 1976 |
| Totemism yesterday: sentiment and local organisation among the Australian Aborigines N Peterson Man 7 (1), 12-32, 1972 | 127 | 1972 |
| The modernising of the Indigenous domestic moral economy: Kinship, accumulation and household composition N Peterson, J Taylor The Asia Pacific journal of anthropology 4 (1-2), 105-122, 2003 | 109 | 2003 |
| An expanding Aboriginal domain: mobility and the initiation journey N Peterson Oceania 70 (3), 205-218, 2000 | 103 | 2000 |
| Camp site location amongst Australian hunter-gatherers: archaeological and ethnographic evidence for a key determinant N Peterson Archaeology & Physical Anthropology in Oceania 8 (3), 173-193, 1973 | 103 | 1973 |
| Aborigines, land, and land rights N Peterson, M Langton (No Title), 1983 | 101 | 1983 |
| Customary marine tenure in Australia N Peterson, B Rigsby Sydney University Press, 2014 | 98 | 2014 |
| What can the pre-colonial and frontier economies tell us about engagement with the real economy? Indigenous life projects and the conditions for development N Peterson Sydney University Press, 2005 | 90 | 2005 |
| 'Studying man and man's nature': the history of the institutionalisation of aboriginal anthropology N Peterson Australian Aboriginal Studies, 3-19, 1990 | 88 | 1990 |
| Ethnographic interpretations of the prehistory of western Arnhem Land C White, N Peterson Southwestern journal of Anthropology 25 (1), 45-67, 1969 | 83 | 1969 |
| Myth of the “walkabout”: movement in the Aboriginal domain N Peterson Population mobility and Indigenous peoples in Australasia and North America …, 2003 | 80 | 2003 |
