• Development and social change
• Economic anthropology and tribal socio-political orders
• Environmental anthropology and natural resources management
• Human ecology and ethnosciences
• Indigenous knowledge and participating development
• Livelihood and technology
• Melanesia and South Asia

• 2009: Qatar Shell Professorial Chair in Sustainable Development in the Sociology Program of the Department of Social Sciences in Qatar University:

Authored books:

• Made in Niugini: Technology in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
  
  Sillitoe, P. (2017). Made in Niugini: Technology in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Sean Kingston Publishing.
• Built in Niugini: Constructions in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
  
  Sillitoe, P. (2017). Built in Niugini: Constructions in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Sean Kingston Publishing.
• Indigenous knowledge:enhancing its contribution to natural resources management.
  
  Sillitoe, P. (ed.). (2017). Indigenous knowledge:enhancing its contribution to natural resources management. CABI Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1079/9781780647050.0000
• From land to mouth: the agricultural "economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea highlands.
  
  Sillitoe, P. (2010). From land to mouth: the agricultural "economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea highlands. Yale University Press.
• Grass-clearing man : a factional ethnography of life in the New Guinea Highlands.
  
  Sillitoe, P., & Sillitoe, J. (2009). Grass-clearing man : a factional ethnography of life in the New Guinea Highlands. Waveland Press.
• Managing animals in New Guinea: Preying the Game in the Highlands
  
  Sillitoe, P. (2003). Managing animals in New Guinea: Preying the Game in the Highlands. Routledge.
• Horticulture in Papua New Guinea: Case Studies from the Southern and Western Highlands
  
  Sillitoe, P., Stewart, P., & Strathern, A. (2002). Horticulture in Papua New Guinea: Case Studies from the Southern and Western Highlands. University of Pittsburgh.
• A place against time: land and environment in the Papua New Guinea highlands.
  
  Sillitoe, P. (1996). A place against time: land and environment in the Papua New Guinea highlands. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic (Gordon & Breach).

Chapters in books:

• Soil ethnoecology
  
  Sillitoe, P. (2021). Soil ethnoecology. In T. F. Thornton & S. Bhagwat (Eds.), Handbook of indigenous environmental knowledge : global themes and practice. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315270845-8
• The Knowing in Indigenous Knowledge: Alternative Ways to View Development, Largely from a New Guinea Highlands’ Perspective
  
  Sillitoe, P. (2016). The Knowing in Indigenous Knowledge: Alternative Ways to View Development, Largely from a New Guinea Highlands’ Perspective. In Ethnic and Cultural Dimensions of Knowledge (pp. 129-163). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21900-4_7
• Indigenous Knowledge
  
  Sillitoe, P. (2015). Indigenous Knowledge. In A. Strathern & P. (eds) Stewart (Eds.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Anthropology. (pp. 343-368). Ashgate Publishing.
• What Local People Want with Forests: Ideologies and Attitudes in Papua New Guinea
  
  Sillitoe, P., & Filer, C. (2014). What Local People Want with Forests: Ideologies and Attitudes in Papua New Guinea. In E. Gilberthorpe & G. Hilson (Eds.), Natural Resource Extraction and Indigenous Livelihoods: Development Challenges in an Era of Globalisation (pp. 201-220). Ashgate Publishing.
• ‘Why did the fish cross the road?’ Environmental uncertainty and local knowledge in Bangladesh.
  
  Sillitoe, P., & Alam, M. (2012). ‘Why did the fish cross the road?’ Environmental uncertainty and local knowledge in Bangladesh. In A. Hornidge & C. Antweiler (Eds.), Environmental Uncertainty and Local Knowledge: Southeast Asia as a Laboratory of Global Ecological Change (pp. 145-183). Transcript Verlag.
• Indigenous knowledge development in Bangladesh: Present and future.
  
  Sillitoe, P. (2000). Indigenous knowledge development in Bangladesh: Present and future (pp. 3-20,145-60,161-177,179-195). London: Intermediate Technology Publications & Dhaka: University Press.
• No climate, what change? The weather in Papua New Guinea highlander life
  
  Sillitoe, P. (n.d.). No climate, what change? The weather in Papua New Guinea highlander life. In I. Garibay Toussaint, J. Torre, & N. E. Narchi (Eds.), Local ecological calendars: Understanding weather through cultures, places, and time(s) [Contracted by publisher]. Springer.

Conference Papers:

• Implementation of e-science tools for complex analysis of human-environmental interaction
  
  Lyon, S., Sillitoe, P., & Wilson, R. (2005). Implementation of e-science tools for complex analysis of human-environmental interaction. Presented at First International Conference on e-Social Science., Manchester.

Edited books:

• Participating in development: approaches to indigenous knowledge
  
  Sillitoe, P., Bicker, A., & Pottier, J. (Eds.). (2002). Participating in development: approaches to indigenous knowledge. Routledge.

Journal Articles:

• Known and Unknown Stone: Papuan Petrology and Reciprocity
  
  Sillitoe, P. (2024). Known and Unknown Stone: Papuan Petrology and Reciprocity. Archaeologies, 20(1), 214-238. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11759-024-09496-7
• Pigs in Rites: Rights in Pigs: Porcine Values in the Papua New Guinea Highlands
  
  Sillitoe, P. (2021). Pigs in Rites: Rights in Pigs: Porcine Values in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Anthropozoologica., 56(8), 117-136. https://doi.org/10.5252/anthropozoologica2021v56a8
• The life history of human foraging: Cross-cultural and individual variation
  
  Koster, J., McElreath, R., Hill, K., Yu, D., Shepard, G., van Vliet, N., Gurven, M., Trumble, B., Bird, R. B., Bird, D., Codding, B., Coad, L., Pacheco-Cobos, L., Winterhalder, B., Lupo, K., Schmitt, D., Sillitoe, P., Franzen, M., Alvard, M., … Ross, C. (2020). The life history of human foraging: Cross-cultural and individual variation. Science Advances, 6(26), Article eaax9070. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax9070
• Some Challenges of collaborative research with local knowledge
  
  Sillitoe, P. (2018). Some Challenges of collaborative research with local knowledge. Antropologia Pubblica., 4(1), 31-50. https://doi.org/10.1473/anpub.v4i1.126
• Durham anthropology: a provincial history of a provisional discipline
  
  Sillitoe, P. (2018). Durham anthropology: a provincial history of a provisional discipline. History and Anthropology, 29(2), 233-274. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2017.1279158
• Challenges to conservation: land use change and local participation in the Al Reem Biosphere Reserve, West Qatar
  
  Sillitoe, P., Alshawi, A., & Al-Amir Hassan, A. (2010). Challenges to conservation: land use change and local participation in the Al Reem Biosphere Reserve, West Qatar. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 6(1), Article 28. https://doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-6-28
• Trust in development: some implications of knowing in indigenous knowledge.
  
  Sillitoe, P. (2010). Trust in development: some implications of knowing in indigenous knowledge. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 16(1), 12-30. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01594.x
• After the 'affluent society' : cost of living in the Papua New Guinea highlands according to time and energy expenditure- income
  
  Sillitoe, P. (2002). After the ’affluent society’ : cost of living in the Papua New Guinea highlands according to time and energy expenditure- income. Journal of Biosocial Science, 34(4), 433-461. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021932002004339
• Beating the boundaries: land tenure and identity in the Papua New Guinea Highlands.
  
  Sillitoe, P. (1999). Beating the boundaries: land tenure and identity in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Journal of Anthropological Research, 55(3), 331-360.
• The development of indigenous knowledge: a new applied anthropology
  
  Sillitoe, P. (1998). The development of indigenous knowledge: a new applied anthropology. Current Anthropology, 39(2), 223-252. https://doi.org/10.1086/204722

Other (Digital/Visual Media):

• The Wola Files. This link connects to various data on the Wola people of Papua New Guinea: https://paulsillitoe.webspace.durham.ac.uk/
  
  Sillitoe, P. (1978). The Wola Files. This link connects to various data on the Wola people of Papua New Guinea: https://paulsillitoe.webspace.durham.ac.uk/ [Dataset].