| Making national cultures in the global ecumene RJ Foster Annual review of anthropology, 235-260, 1991 | 769 | 1991 |
| Materializing the nation: Commodities, consumption, and media in Papua New Guinea RJ Foster Indiana University Press, 2002 | 395 | 2002 |
| Coca-globalization: following soft drinks from New York to New Guinea RJ Foster, RJ Foster, FJ Robert, J Foster Robert Palgrave Macmillan 1, 90095-1524, 2008 | 351 | 2008 |
| The work of the new economy: Consumers, brands, and value creation RJ Foster Cultural Anthropology 22 (4), 707-731, 2007 | 277 | 2007 |
| Nation making: emergent identities in postcolonial Melanesia RJ Foster University of Michigan Press, 1997 | 255 | 1997 |
| Social reproduction and history in Melanesia: Mortuary ritual, gift exchange, and custom in the Tanga Islands RJ Foster Cambridge University Press, 1995 | 248 | 1995 |
| Tracking globalization RJ Foster Handbook of material culture, 285, 2006 | 187 | 2006 |
| Commodities, brands, love and kula: Comparative notes on value creation in honor of Nancy Munn RJ Foster Anthropological Theory 8 (1), 9-25, 2008 | 128 | 2008 |
| The commercial construction of ‘new nations’ RJ Foster Journal of Material Culture 4 (3), 263-282, 1999 | 125 | 1999 |
| Commodity futures: Labour, love and value. RJ Foster Anthropology Today 21 (4), 2005 | 90 | 2005 |
| Consumer citizenship, nationalism, and neoliberal globalization in Turkey: The advertising launch of Cola Turka D Ozkan, RJ Foster Advertising & Society Review 6 (3), 2005 | 90 | 2005 |
| The archaeology and ethnohistory of exchange in precolonial and colonial Roviana: Gifts, commodities, and inalienable possessions S Aswani, P Sheppard Current Anthropology 44 (S5), S51-S78, 2003 | 90 | 2003 |
| Commoditization and the emergence of kastam as a cultural category: a New Ireland case in comparative perspective RJ Foster Oceania 62 (4), 284-294, 1992 | 83 | 1992 |
| Nurture and force‐feeding: mortuary feasting and the construction of collective individuals in a New Ireland society RJ Foster American Ethnologist 17 (3), 431-448, 1990 | 71 | 1990 |
| Print advertisements and nation making in metropolitan Papua New Guinea RJ Foster Advertising & Society Review 1 (1), 2000 | 70 | 2000 |
| Bargains with modernity in Papua New Guinea and elsewhere RJ Foster Anthropological Theory 2 (2), 233-251, 2002 | 63 | 2002 |
| From Trobriand cricket to rugby nation: The mission of sport in Papua New Guinea RJ Foster Muscular Christianity and the Colonial and Post-Colonial World, 39-58, 2013 | 60 | 2013 |
| Introduction: the work of nation making RJ Foster Nation making: Emergent identities in postcolonial Melanesia, 1-30, 1995 | 60 | 1995 |
| Your money, our money, the government's money: finance and fetishism in Melanesia RJ Foster Border fetishisms, 60-90, 2013 | 58 | 2013 |
| In God we trust? The legitimacy of Melanesian currencies RJ Foster Money and modernity: State and local currencies in Melanesia, 214-231, 1999 | 57 | 1999 |
