| Symbolic immortality: The Tlingit potlatch of the nineteenth century S Kan University of Washington Press, 2015 | 356 | 2015 |
| Memory eternal: Tlingit culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through two centuries S Kan University of Washington Press, 2014 | 158 | 2014 |
| Lev Shternberg: Anthropologist, Russian Socialist, Jewish Activist S Kan U of Nebraska Press, 2009 | 107 | 2009 |
| the 19th‐century Tlingit potlatch: a new perspective S Kan American Ethnologist 13 (2), 191-212, 1986 | 67 | 1986 |
| Russian orthodox brotherhoods among the Tlingit: Missionary goals and Native response S Kan Religions and Missionaries around the Pacific, 1500–1900, 183-209, 2017 | 61 | 2017 |
| Strangers to relatives: The adoption and naming of anthropologists in Native North America S Kan U of Nebraska Press, 2001 | 59 | 2001 |
| «Мой друг в тупике эмпиризма и скепсиса»: владимир Богораз, Франц Боас и политический контекст советской этнологии в конце 1920-x—начале 1930-х гг. С Кан Антропологический форум, 191-230, 2007 | 49* | 2007 |
| Clan mothers and godmothers: Tlingit women and Russian Orthodox Christianity, 1840-1940 S Kan Ethnohistory, 613-641, 1996 | 48 | 1996 |
| Shamanism and Christianity: Modern-day Tlingit elders look at the past S Kan Across The Boundaries Of Belief, 42-62, 2018 | 46 | 2018 |
| Shamans of the Siberian Eskimos TS Tein, DB Shimkin, S Kan Arctic anthropology, 117-125, 1994 | 30 | 1994 |
| Cohorts, Generations, and Their Culture. The Tlingit Potlatch in the 1980s S Kan Anthropos, 405-422, 1989 | 26 | 1989 |
| Coming to shore: Northwest Coast ethnology, traditions, and visions M Mauzä, ME Harkin, S Kan U of Nebraska Press, 2004 | 24 | 2004 |
| Prehistoric Eskimo whaling in the Arctic: slaughter of calves or fortuitous ecology? II Krupnik, S Kan Arctic anthropology, 1-12, 1993 | 22 | 1993 |
| Native American women's responses to Christianity M Hawkins, S Kan, KJ Bragdon, DM Notarianni, JA Fiske, PT Strong, ... Duke University, 1996 | 21 | 1996 |
| Memory eternal: orthodox Christianity and the Tlingit mortuary complex S Kan Arctic anthropology, 32-55, 1987 | 21 | 1987 |
| The Concept of the 'Field' in Early Soviet Ethnography DSK Arzyutov Sibirica 16 (1), 31-74, 2017 | 14 | 2017 |
| Russian Orthodox missionaries at home and abroad: The case of Siberian and Alaskan indigenous peoples S Kan na, 2001 | 14 | 2001 |
| The Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska S Kan Handbook of North American Indians 4, 506-521, 1988 | 14 | 1988 |
| New perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, histories, and representations S Kan, PT Strong, R Fogelson U of Nebraska Press, 2006 | 13 | 2006 |
| The ‘Russian Bastian’and Boas: Or Why Shternberg’s ‘The Social Organization of the Gilyak’Never Appeared among the Jesup Expedition Publications S Kan Gateways: Exploring the Legacy of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897 …, 2001 | 13 | 2001 |
