2007 Weaving Women’s Lives: Three Generations in a Navajo Family. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
2005 Providers and Patients Respond to Medicaid Managed Care: Ethnographic Insights from New Mexico, editors Louise Lamphere and Nancy Nelson. Medical Anthropology Quarterly for Special Issue, vol 19, no. 1, March 2005
1997 Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life. (edited with Helena Ragone’ and Patricia Zavella) New York: Routledge Press.
1994 Newcomers in the Workplace: Immigrants and the Restructuring of the U.S. Economy, co-edited with Guillermo Grenier. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
1993 Sunbelt Working Mothers: Reconciling Family and Factory, co-authored with Patricia Zavella, Felipe Gonzales and Peter B. Evans. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
1992 Structuring Diversity: Ethnographic Perspectives on the New Immigration, edited by Louise Lamphere. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
1987 From Working Daughters to Working Mothers: Immigrant Women in a New England Industrial Community. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
1977 To Run After Them: The Social and Cultural Bases of Cooperation in a Navajo Community. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
1974 Woman, Culture, and Society, co-edited with Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo. “Introduction” co-authored with Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo. Stanford: Stanford University Press.