| Mode of subsistence and folk biological taxonomy [and comments and reply] CH Brown, EN Anderson Jr, R Bulmer, P Drechsel, RF Ellen, TE Hays, ... Current Anthropology 26 (1), 43-64, 1985 | 175 | 1985 |
| an empirical method for the identification of covert categories in ethnobiology1 TE Hays American Ethnologist 3 (3), 489-507, 1976 | 155 | 1976 |
| Ndumba folk biology and general principles of ethnobotanical classification and nomenclature TE Hays American Anthropologist 85 (3), 592-611, 1983 | 117 | 1983 |
| Utilitarian/adaptationist explanations of folk biological classification: some cautionary notes TE Hays Journal of Ethnobiology 2 (1), 89-94, 1982 | 101 | 1982 |
| Mauna: explorations in Ndumba ethnobotany. TE Hays University of Washington, 1974 | 81 | 1974 |
| " The New Guinea Highlands": Region, Culture Area, or Fuzzy Set?[and Comments and Reply] TE Hays, P Brown, S Harrison, B Hauser-Schäublin, DM Hayano, ... Current Anthropology 34 (2), 141-164, 1993 | 64 | 1993 |
| Opposition and complementarity of the sexes in Ndumba initiation TE Hays, PH Hays Rituals of manhood, 201-237, 2017 | 55 | 2017 |
| Plant classification and nomenclature in Ndumba, Papua New Guinea highlands TE Hays Ethnology 18 (3), 253-270, 1979 | 43 | 1979 |
| Ethnographic presents: pioneering anthropologists in the Papua New Guinea highlands TE Hays Univ of California Press, 1992 | 34 | 1992 |
| Encyclopedia of World Cultures: South America. Edited by Johannes Wilbert TJ O'Leary, TE Hays, P Hockings, LA Bennett, P Friedrich, N Diamond, ... Prentice-Hall, 1994 | 29 | 1994 |
| No Tobacco, No Hallelujah TE Hays Institute for Polynesian Studies. Brigham Young University, Hawaii., 1991 | 22 | 1991 |
| Sacred flutes, fertility, and growth in the Papua New Guinea Highlands TE Hays Anthropos, 435-453, 1986 | 21 | 1986 |
| Menstrual expressions and menstrual attitudes TE Hays Sex roles 16, 605-614, 1987 | 20 | 1987 |
| Uses of wild plants in Ndumba, Eastern Highlands Province TE Hays | 19 | 1980 |
| Animals the ancestors hunted IS Majnep, R Bulmer, TE Hays Anthropos: International Review of Anthropology and Linguistics 103 (2), 606, 2008 | 18 | 2008 |
| Sound symbolism, onomatopoeia, and New Guinea frog names TE Hays Journal of Linguistic anthropology 4 (2), 153-174, 1994 | 17 | 1994 |
| Myths of Matriarchy’and the Sacred Flute Complex of the Papua New Guinea Highlands T Hays Myths of matriarchy reconsidered, 98, 1988 | 17 | 1988 |
| A historical background to anthropology in the Papua New Guinea Highlands TE Hays Ethnographic Presents: Pioneering Anthropologists in the Papua New Guinea …, 1992 | 15 | 1992 |
| Vernacular names for tubers in Irian Jaya: implications for agricultural prehistory TE Hays Papuan pasts: Cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan …, 2005 | 13 | 2005 |
| Interest, use, and interest in uses in folk biology TE Hays Man and a half: Essays in pacific, 1991 | 9 | 1991 |
