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| Ethnicity and constitutionalism in contemporary Ethiopia J Abbink Journal of African Law 41 (2), 159-174, 1997 | 224 | 1997 |
| Ethnicity and conflict generation in Ethiopia: Some problems and prospects of ethno-regional federalism J Abbink Journal of contemporary African studies 24 (3), 389-413, 2006 | 223 | 2006 |
| Meanings of violence: a cross-cultural perspective J Abbink, G Aijmer Routledge, 2020 | 200 | 2020 |
| ‘Land to the foreigners’: economic, legal, and socio-cultural aspects of new land acquisition schemes in Ethiopia J Abbink Journal of Contemporary African Studies 29 (4), 513-535, 2011 | 165 | 2011 |
| Ethiopia—Eritrea: Proxy wars and prospects of peace in the horn of Africa J Abbink Journal of Contemporary African Studies 21 (3), 407-426, 2003 | 165 | 2003 |
| Twenty years of revolutionary democratic Ethiopia, 1991 to 2011 T Hagmann, J Abbink Journal of Eastern African Studies 5 (4), 579-595, 2011 | 160 | 2011 |
| An historical‐anthropological approach to Islam in Ethiopia: issues of identity and politics J Abbink Journal of African Cultural Studies 11 (2), 109-124, 1998 | 155 | 1998 |
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| Medicinal and ritual plants of the Ethiopian Southwest: an account of recent research J Abbink Indigenous knowledge and development monitor 3 (2), 6-8, 1995 | 145 | 1995 |
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| Religion in public spaces: Emerging Muslim–Christian polemics in Ethiopia J Abbink African Affairs 110 (439), 253-274, 2011 | 128 | 2011 |
| The anthropology of elites: Power, culture, and the complexities of distinction J Abbink, T Salverda Springer, 2012 | 117 | 2012 |
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| Rethinking Resistance: revolt and violence in African history GJ Abbink, M De Bruijn, K Van Walraven Brill, 2003 | 96 | 2003 |
| Lands of the future: Transforming pastoral lands and livelihoods in eastern Africa J Abbink, K Askew, D Feyissa, E Fratkin, EC Gabbert, J Galaty, S LaTosky, ... | 89 | 2014 |
| Tourism and its discontents - Suri-Tourist encounters in southern Ethiopia J Abbink S.B. Gmelch, ed., Tourists and Tourism: a Reader. Second Edition, 115-136, 2009 | 89* | 2009 |
