| Writing for culture: Why a successful concept should not be discarded C Brumann Current Anthropology 40 (S1), S1-S27, 1999 | 777 | 1999 |
| Heritage agnosticism: A third path for the study of cultural heritage C Brumann Social Anthropology 22 (2), 173-188, 2014 | 154 | 2014 |
| UNESCO and new world orders C Brumann, L Meskell Global heritage: A reader (ed. L Meskell), 22-42, 2015 | 106* | 2015 |
| Shifting tides of world-making in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention: Cosmopolitanisms colliding C Brumann Ethnic and Racial Studies 37 (12), 2176-2192, 2014 | 105 | 2014 |
| Outside the glass case: The social life of urban heritage in Kyoto C Brumann American Ethnologist 36 (2), 276-299, 2009 | 105 | 2009 |
| Cultural heritage C Brumann International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences (2nd ed …, 2015 | 98 | 2015 |
| World Heritage on the ground: Ethnographic perspectives C Brumann, D Berliner (eds.) New York: Berghahn, 2016 | 90* | 2016 |
| Multilateral ethnography: Entering the World Heritage arena C Brumann Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 136, 2012 | 79 | 2012 |
| Tradition, democracy and the townscape of Kyoto: Claiming a right to the past C Brumann London: Routledge, 2012 | 77 | 2012 |
| The dominance of one and its perils: Charismatic leadership and branch structures in utopian communes C Brumann Journal of Anthropological Research 56 (4), 425-451, 2000 | 66 | 2000 |
| Community as myth and reality in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention C Brumann Between imagined communities and communities of practice (eds. N Adell; RF …, 2015 | 62 | 2015 |
| Introduction: UNESCO World Heritage -- grounded? C Brumann, D Berliner World Heritage on the ground: Ethnographic perspectives (eds. C Brumann; D …, 2016 | 48 | 2016 |
| Making Japanese heritage C Brumann, RA Cox (eds.) London: Routledge, 2009 | 41 | 2009 |
| The best we share: Nation, culture and world-making in the UNESCO World Heritage arena C Brumann New York: Berghahn Books, 2021 | 39 | 2021 |
| Urban spaces in Japan: Cultural and social perspectives C Brumann, E Schulz (eds.) London: Routledge, 2012 | 38 | 2012 |
| The anthropological study of globalization: Towards an agenda for the second phase C Brumann Anthropos 93, 495-506, 1998 | 37 | 1998 |
| Cultural landscapes and the UNESCO World Heritage List: Perpetuating European dominance C Brumann, A Gfeller International Journal of Heritage Studies 28 (2), 147-162, 2021 | 36 | 2021 |
| Comment le patrimoine mondial de l'Unesco devient immatériel C Brumann Gradhiva 18, 22-49, 2013 | 30 | 2013 |
| How to be authentic in the UNESCO World Heritage system: Copies, replicas, reconstructions, and renovations in a Global Conservation Arena C Brumann The transformative power of the copy: A transcultural and interdisciplinary …, 2017 | 29 | 2017 |
| Unser aller Kulturgut: Eine ethnologische Annäherung an das UNESCO-Welterbe C Brumann Sociologus 61 (1), 19-43, 2011 | 29 | 2011 |
Lynn MeskellDepartment of Anthropology, Program in Historic Preservation and Penn Museum, University ofVerified email at sas.upenn.edu