| Dance in anthropological perspective AL Kaeppler Annual review of anthropology, 31-49, 1978 | 348 | 1978 |
| " Artificial curiosities": being an exposition of native manufactures collected on the three Pacific voyages of Captain James Cook, RN, at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum … AL Kaeppler (No Title), 1978 | 292 | 1978 |
| II. Dance ethnology and the anthropology of dance AL Kaeppler Dance Research Journal 32 (1), 116-125, 2000 | 260 | 2000 |
| Method and theory in analyzing dance structure with an analysis of Tongan dance AL Kaeppler Ethnomusicology 16 (2), 173-217, 1972 | 220 | 1972 |
| Exchange patterns in goods and spouses: Fiji Tonga and Samoa AL Kaeppler Peoples of the Pacific, 253-259, 2017 | 162 | 2017 |
| Rank in Tonga AL Kaeppler Ethnology 10 (2), 174-193, 1971 | 133 | 1971 |
| Structured movement systems in Tonga A Kaeppler Society and the Dance, 92-118, 1985 | 121 | 1985 |
| Exhibiting dilemmas: Issues of representation at the Smithsonian A Henderson Smithsonian Institution, 2016 | 116 | 2016 |
| Movements toward understanding humans through the anthropological study of dance [and comments and reply] JL Hanna, RD Abrahams, NR Crumrine, R Dirks, R Von Gizycki, P Heyer, ... Current Anthropology 20 (2), 313-339, 1979 | 112 | 1979 |
| The mystique of fieldwork AL Kaeppler Dance in the field: Theory, methods and issues in dance ethnography, 13-25, 1999 | 105 | 1999 |
| Hula pahu: Hawaiian drum dances J Van Zile Bishop Museum Press, 1993 | 91 | 1993 |
| The pacific arts of Polynesia and Micronesia AL Kaeppler OUP Oxford, 2008 | 89 | 2008 |
| American approaches to the study of dance AL Kaeppler Yearbook for traditional music 23, 11-21, 1991 | 89 | 1991 |
| Dance and the Concept of Style AL Kaeppler Yearbook for traditional music 33, 49-64, 2001 | 79 | 2001 |
| Poetry in motion: Studies of Tongan dance AL Kaeppler (No Title), 1993 | 78 | 1993 |
| Paradise regained: the role of Pacific museums in forging national identity AL Kaeppler Museums and the making of ourselves: The role of objects in national …, 1994 | 69 | 1994 |
| Dance. AL Kaeppler Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement 14 (2), 2006 | 65 | 2006 |
| Aesthetics of Tongan dance AL Kaeppler Ethnomusicology 15 (2), 175-185, 1971 | 61 | 1971 |
| The structure of Tongan dance AL Kaeppler University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 1967 | 60 | 1967 |
| The art of the Pacific Islands P Gathercole, AL Kaeppler, D Newton (No Title), 1979 | 58 | 1979 |
