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| Elephants are eating our money: A critical ethnography of development practice in Maputaland, South Africa I Van Wyk University of Pretoria, 2005 | 17 | 2005 |
| Believing practically and trusting socially in Africa: The contrary case of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Durban, South Africa I Van Wyk Christianity and public culture in Africa, 189-203, 2011 | 16 | 2011 |
| Prosperity and the work of luck in the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, South Africa I Van Wyk Critical African Studies 7 (3), 262-279, 2015 | 13 | 2015 |
| Land claims and corporate imitation: brokering development in maputaland, KwaZulu-Natal I Van Wyk Anthropology Southern Africa 26 (1/2), 63-71, 2003 | 10 | 2003 |
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| A response I Van Wyk Anthropology Southern Africa 35 (3-4), 119-121, 2012 | 7 | 2012 |
| Postcolonial Africa and its lotteries I van Wyk Critical Gambling Studies, 2021 | 6 | 2021 |
| The ethics of dislike in the field I Van Wyk Ethical quandaries in social research, 199-213, 2014 | 6 | 2014 |
| Fragile wars: Anti-ecumenism in a South African church I Van Wyk Journal of Southern African Studies 44 (2), 269-281, 2018 | 5 | 2018 |
| “All answers”: On the phenomenal success of a Brazilian Pentecostal charismatic church in South Africa I Van Wyk Pentecostalism in Africa, 136-162, 2015 | 5 | 2015 |
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| Bad luck, slippery money and the South African lottery I Van Wyk Qualitative Research in Gambling, 156-170, 2013 | 2 | 2013 |
