| The silence of Great Zimbabwe: Contested landscapes and the power of heritage J Fontein Routledge, 2016 | 269 | 2016 |
| Graves, ruins, and belonging: towards an anthropology of proximity J Fontein Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 17 (4), 706-727, 2011 | 157 | 2011 |
| The substance of bones: the emotive materiality and affective presence of human remains C Krmpotich, J Fontein, J Harries Journal of material culture 15 (4), 371-384, 2010 | 138 | 2010 |
| Between tortured bodies and resurfacing bones: the politics of the dead in Zimbabwe J Fontein Journal of material culture 15 (4), 423-448, 2010 | 126 | 2010 |
| Remaking Mutirikwi: landscape, water and belonging in southern Zimbabwe J Fontein Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2015 | 121 | 2015 |
| Anticipating the Tsunami: Rumours, planning and the arbitrary state in Zimbabwe J Fontein Africa 79 (3), 369-398, 2009 | 112 | 2009 |
| The politics of the dead: Living heritage, bones, and commemoration in Zimbabwe J Fontein na, 2009 | 72 | 2009 |
| The power of water: Landscape, water and the state in Southern and Eastern Africa: An introduction J Fontein Journal of Southern African Studies 34 (4), 737-756, 2008 | 71 | 2008 |
| Silence, destruction and closure at Great Zimbabwe: Local narratives of desecration and alienation J Fontein Journal of Southern African Studies 32 (4), 771-794, 2006 | 52 | 2006 |
| ‘We want to belong to our roots and we want to be modern people’: new farmers, old claims around Lake Mutirikwi, Southern Zimbabwe J Fontein African Studies Quarterly 10 (4), 1-36, 2009 | 46 | 2009 |
| Remaking the dead, uncertainty and the torque of human materials in northern Zimbabwe J Fontein Governing the dead: sovereignty and the politics of dead bodies, 114-142, 2014 | 45 | 2014 |
| Shared legacies of the war: Spirit mediums and war veterans in southern Zimbabwe J Fontein Journal of Religion in Africa 36 (2), 167-199, 2006 | 44 | 2006 |
| The vitality and efficacy of human substances J Fontein, J Harries Critical African Studies 5 (3), 115-126, 2013 | 40 | 2013 |
| Languages of land, water and ‘tradition’around Lake Mutirikwi in Southern Zimbabwe J Fontein The Journal of Modern African Studies 44 (2), 223-249, 2006 | 40 | 2006 |
| Encountering the past: unearthing remnants of humans in archaeology and anthropology P Filippucci, J Harries, J Fontein, C Krmpotich Archaeology and Anthropology, 197-217, 2020 | 36 | 2020 |
| UNESCO, heritage and Africa: An anthropological critique of world heritage J Fontein Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, 2000 | 33 | 2000 |
| The politics of the dead in Zimbabwe 2000-2020: Bones, rumours & spirits J Fontein Boydell and Brewer, 2022 | 31 | 2022 |
| ‘Those who are not known, should be known by the country’: Patriotic History and the Politics of Recognition in Southern Zimbabwe J Mujere, ME Sagiya, J Fontein Journal of Eastern African Studies 11 (1), 86-114, 2017 | 29 | 2017 |
| “She appeared to be in some kind of trance” Anthropology and the question of unknowability in a criminal trial J Fontein HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 4 (1), 75-103, 2014 | 21 | 2014 |
| Doing research: Anthropology and ethnographic fieldwork J Fontein Doing Anthropological Research, 55-69, 2013 | 20 | 2013 |
