| The Wanano Indians of the Brazilian Amazon: a sense of space JM Chernela University of Texas Press, 2010 | 243 | 2010 |
| Os cultivares de mandioca na área do Uaupés (Tukâno) JM Chernela Suma etnológica brasileira 1, 151-158, 1986 | 155 | 1986 |
| The politics of mediation: Local–global interactions in the Central Amazon of Brazil J Chernela American Anthropologist 107 (4), 620-631, 2005 | 85 | 2005 |
| Managing rivers of hunger: the Tukano of Brazil JM Chernela Advances in Economic Botany, 238-248, 1989 | 85 | 1989 |
| Conflicting cultures of nature: ecotourism, education and the Kayapó of the Brazilian Amazon L Zanotti, J Chernela Tourism Geographies 10 (4), 495-521, 2008 | 68 | 2008 |
| Language ideology and women's speech: talking community in the Northwest Amazon JM Chernela American Anthropologist 105 (4), 794-806, 2003 | 63 | 2003 |
| Righting history in the northwest Amazon: myth, structure, and history in an Arapaço narrative JM Chernela Rethinking history and myth: Indigenous South American perspectives on the …, 1988 | 56 | 1988 |
| Indigenous fishing in the neotropics: the Tukanoan Uanano of the blackwater Uaupes River Basin in Brazil and Colombia. JM Chernela | 52 | 1985 |
| Indigenous forest and fish management in the Uaupes Basin of Brazil J Chernela Cultural Survival Quarterly 6 (2), 17-18, 1982 | 47 | 1982 |
| Toward a Tukanoan ethnolinguistics: Metadiscursive practices, identity, and sustained linguistic diversity in the Vaupés basin of Brazil and Colombia J Chernela Upper Rio Negro: Cultural and linguistic interaction in northwestern …, 2013 | 45 | 2013 |
| Pesca e hierarquização tribal no alto Uaupés JM Chernela Suma etnológica brasileira 1, 235-249, 1987 | 38 | 1987 |
| Social meaning and material transaction: the Wanano-Tukano of Brazil and Colombia JM Chernela Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 11 (2), 111-124, 1992 | 37 | 1992 |
| Barriers natural and unnatural: Islamiento as a central metaphor in Kuna ecotourism JM Chernela Bulletin of Latin American Research 30 (1), 35-49, 2011 | 36 | 2011 |
| Comparison of parasite burdens in two native Amazonian populations JM Chernela, VE Thatcher Medical Anthropology 10 (4), 279-285, 1989 | 35 | 1989 |
| The politics of language acquisition: Language learning as social modeling in the northwest Amazon JM Chernela Women and Language 27 (1), 13-20, 2004 | 32 | 2004 |
| Language in an ontological register: Embodied speech in the Northwest Amazon of Colombia and Brazil J Chernela Language & Communication 63, 23-32, 2018 | 31 | 2018 |
| Indigenous rights and ethno-development: the life of an indigenous organization in the Rio Negro of Brazil J Chernela Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology Lowland South America 9 …, 2011 | 31 | 2011 |
| Limits to knowledge: indigenous peoples, NGOs, and the moral economy in the eastern Amazon of Brazil J Chernela, L Zanotti Conservation and Society 12 (3), 306-317, 2014 | 30 | 2014 |
| Symbolic inaction in rituals of gender and procreation among the Garifuna (Black Caribs) of Honduras JM Chernela Ethos 19 (1), 52-67, 1991 | 26 | 1991 |
| Piercing distinctions: making and remaking the social contract in the North-West Amazon J Chernela Beyond the visible and the material: the americanindianization of society in …, 2001 | 25 | 2001 |
