| Crucible of conflict: Tamil and Muslim society on the east coast of Sri Lanka DB McGilvray Duke University Press, 2008 | 220 | 2008 |
| Writing within: anthropology, nationalism, and culture in Sri Lanka [and comments and reply] J Spencer, R Handler, B Kapferer, RS Khare, DB McGilvray, ... Current Anthropology 31 (3), 283-300, 1990 | 171 | 1990 |
| Arabs, moors and Muslims: Sri Lankan Muslim ethnicity in regional perspective DB McGilvray Contributions to Indian Sociology 32 (2), 433-483, 1998 | 126 | 1998 |
| Sexual power and fertility in Sri Lanka: Batticaloa Tamils and Moors DB McGilvray Ethnography of fertility and birth, 25-73, 1982 | 117 | 1982 |
| Mukkuvar vannimai: Tamil caste and matriclan ideology in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka DB McGilvray Caste ideology and interaction, 34-97, 1982 | 101 | 1982 |
| Muslim perspectives on the Sri Lankan conflict DB McGilvray, M Raheem Washington, DC: East-West Center Washington, 2007 | 83 | 2007 |
| Dutch burghers and Portuguese mechanics: Eurasian ethnicity in Sri Lanka DB McGilvray Comparative Studies in Society and History 24 (2), 235-263, 1982 | 82 | 1982 |
| Sri Lankan Muslims: between ethno‐nationalism and the global ummah DB McGilvray Nations and nationalism 17 (1), 45-64, 2011 | 78 | 2011 |
| Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka D McGilvray, M Gamburd London: Routledge, 2010 | 63 | 2010 |
| Symbolic heat: gender, health & worship among the Tamils of south India and Sri Lanka DB McGilvray Mapin Publishing Pvt Ltd, 1998 | 59 | 1998 |
| Caste ideology and interaction DB McGilvray Cambridge University Press, 1982 | 51 | 1982 |
| Households in Akkaraipattu: dowry and domestic organization among the matrilineal Tamils and Moors of Sri Lanka DB McGilvray Society from the inside out: Anthropological perspectives on the South Asian …, 1989 | 48 | 1989 |
| Jailani: A Sufi Shrine in Sri Lanka DB McGilvray Lived Islam in South Asia: Adaptation, Accommodation, and Conflict, 273, 2004 | 46* | 2004 |
| Tamils and Muslims in the shadow of war: Schism or continuity? DB McGilvray South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 20 (s1), 239-253, 1997 | 44 | 1997 |
| Paraiyar Drummers of Sri Lanka: consensus and constraint in an untouchable caste DB McGilvray American ethnologist 10 (1), 97-115, 1983 | 35 | 1983 |
| Sex, Repression, and Sanskritization in Sri Lanka? DB McGilvray Ethos 16 (2), 99-127, 1988 | 32 | 1988 |
| A matrilineal Sufi shaykh in Sri Lanka DB McGilvray Culture and Power in South Asian Islam, 124-139, 2017 | 24 | 2017 |
| Rethinking Muslim Identity in Sri Lanka DB McGilvray Buddhist Extremists and Muslim Minorities: Religious Conflict in …, 2016 | 24 | 2016 |
| Tamil and Muslim identities in the East DB McGilvray Marga Institute, 2001 | 23 | 2001 |
| Tamils and Moors: caste and matriclan structure in eastern Sri Lanka. DB McGilvray The University of Chicago, 1974 | 23 | 1974 |