| Witchcraft, Power and Politics: exploring the occult in the South African Lowveld IA Niehaus, E Mohlala, K Shokane Pluto, 2001 | 436 | 2001 |
| Witchcraft in the New South Africa: From Colonial Superstition to Postcolonial Reality? 1 I Niehaus Magical interpretations, material realities, 184-205, 2003 | 185* | 2003 |
| Death before dying: understanding AIDS stigma in the South African Lowveld I Niehaus Journal of Southern African Studies 33 (4), 845-860, 2007 | 182 | 2007 |
| Disharmonious spouses and harmonious siblings: Conceptualising household formation among urban residents in Qwaqwa IA Niehaus African Studies 53 (1), 115-135, 1994 | 132 | 1994 |
| Witches and zombies of the South African Lowveld: Discourse, accusations and subjective reality I Niehaus Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 11 (2), 191-210, 2005 | 117 | 2005 |
| Witchcraft and a life in the new South Africa IA Niehaus Cambridge University Press, 2013 | 113 | 2013 |
| Dr. Wouter Basson, Americans, and wild beasts: men's conspiracy theories of HIV/AIDS in the South African Lowveld I Niehaus, G Jonsson Medical anthropology 24 (2), 179-208, 2005 | 106 | 2005 |
| Towards a dubious liberation: Masculinity, sexuality and power in South African lowveld schools, 1953-1999 I Niehaus Journal of Southern African Studies 26 (3), 387-407, 2000 | 101 | 2000 |
| Witch-hunting and political legitimacy: continuity and change in Green Valley, Lebowa, 1930–91 IA Niehaus Africa 63 (4), 498-530, 1993 | 93 | 1993 |
| Renegotiating masculinity in the South African Lowveld: narratives of male-male sex in labour compounds and in prisons I Niehaus African Studies 61 (1), 77-97, 2002 | 85 | 2002 |
| Masculine domination in sexual violence: Interpreting accounts of three cases of rape in the South African Lowveld I Niehaus Men behaving differently, 65-83, 2005 | 81 | 2005 |
| Bodies, heat, and taboos: Conceptualizing modern personhood in the South African Lowveld. I Niehaus Ethnology 41 (3), 2002 | 79 | 2002 |
| Witches of the Transvaal Lowveld and their familiars: Conceptions of duality, power and desire (Sorciers de la région du lowveld au Transvaal) I Niehaus Cahiers d'Etudes africaines, 513-540, 1995 | 63 | 1995 |
| Perversion of power: witchcraft and the sexuality of evil in the South African Lowveld I Niehaus Journal of religion in Africa 32 (3), 269-299, 2002 | 59 | 2002 |
| Ethnicity and the boundaries of belonging: reconfiguring Shangaan identity in the South African lowveld I Niehaus African Affairs 101 (405), 557-583, 2002 | 55 | 2002 |
| Gendered endings: Narratives of male and female suicides in the South African Lowveld I Niehaus Culture, medicine, and psychiatry 36, 327-347, 2012 | 50 | 2012 |
| The ANC's Dilemma: The Symbolic Politics of Three Witch-Hunts in the South African Lowveld, 1990–1995 IA Niehaus African Studies Review 41 (3), 93-118, 1998 | 43 | 1998 |
| Doing politics in Bushbuckridge: work, welfare and the South African elections of 2004 IA Niehaus Africa 76 (4), 526-548, 2006 | 39 | 2006 |
| Witchcraft as subtext: deep knowledge and the South African public sphere I Niehaus Social Dynamics 36 (1), 65-77, 2010 | 36 | 2010 |
| Confronting uncertainty: anthropology and zones of the extraordinary I Niehaus American Ethnologist 40 (4), 651-660, 2013 | 35 | 2013 |
