J R Rayfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 107231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J R Rayfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | J R |
| FAMILY NAME | Rayfield |
| SIGNATURE | RAYFIELD J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
African Art in Transit
New Currents, Ancient Rivers
Films d'Afrique
The Growth of Media in the Third World
African Cinema: Politics and Culture
In Sorcery's Shadow
Fespaco 1987: African cinema and cultural identity1
(1988). FESPACO 1987: African cinema and cultural identity. Visual Anthropology: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 205-215
The Man-eating Myth
The Golden Bough Sprouts Again
General, Applied, and Theoretical: Le Symbolisme en Général. Dan Sperber
Theories of Urbanization and the Colonial City in West Africa
Opening ParagraphThe main purpose of this paper is to show how recent research into the process of urbanization in Africa and into the structure of African cities and nations compels us to rethink our theories of urbanization in general.The relationship between theory and research is a reciprocal one. New research compels the creation of new models, and new models suggest new subjects and methods of research. But both theory and research are affe…
The Languages of a Bilingual Community. A Group of Yiddish Speaking Jews in a Low-Income Suburb of Los Angeles
Africanity: The Cultural Unity of Black Africa
Civilizations of Black Africa
Civilizations of Black Africa
What Is a Story
This paper attempts to discover the criteria by which a listener accepts or rejects an item of oral narrative as being a story. The hypotheses are: (1) such criteria relate to structure rather than content, although the listener does not consciously distinguish structure from content; (2) the structure must have a certain minimal and maximal degree of complexity and be of a certain kind; (3) the criteria will hold cross-culturally. Information ga…
The Dualism of Levi-Strauss
Theories of Urbanization and the Colonial City in West Africa
Opening ParagraphThe main purpose of this paper is to show how recent research into the process of urbanization in Africa and into the structure of African cities and nations compels us to rethink our theories of urbanization in general.The relationship between theory and research is a reciprocal one. New research compels the creation of new models, and new models suggest new subjects and methods of research. But both theory and research are affe…
What Is a Story
This paper attempts to discover the criteria by which a listener accepts or rejects an item of oral narrative as being a story. The hypotheses are: (1) such criteria relate to structure rather than content, although the listener does not consciously distinguish structure from content; (2) the structure must have a certain minimal and maximal degree of complexity and be of a certain kind; (3) the criteria will hold cross-culturally. Information ga…
Africanity: The Cultural Unity of Black Africa
The Growth of Media in the Third World
African Art in Transit
Films d'Afrique
The Dualism of Levi-Strauss
Civilizations of Black Africa
What Is a Story
This paper attempts to discover the criteria by which a listener accepts or rejects an item of oral narrative as being a story. The hypotheses are: (1) such criteria relate to structure rather than content, although the listener does not consciously distinguish structure from content; (2) the structure must have a certain minimal and maximal degree of complexity and be of a certain kind; (3) the criteria will hold cross-culturally. Information ga…
The Languages of a Bilingual Community. A Group of Yiddish Speaking Jews in a Low-Income Suburb of Los Angeles
Africanity: The Cultural Unity of Black Africa
Civilizations of Black Africa
Theories of Urbanization and the Colonial City in West Africa
Opening ParagraphThe main purpose of this paper is to show how recent research into the process of urbanization in Africa and into the structure of African cities and nations compels us to rethink our theories of urbanization in general.The relationship between theory and research is a reciprocal one. New research compels the creation of new models, and new models suggest new subjects and methods of research. But both theory and research are affe…
The Golden Bough Sprouts Again
General, Applied, and Theoretical: Le Symbolisme en Général. Dan Sperber
The Man-eating Myth
Fespaco 1987: African cinema and cultural identity1
(1988). FESPACO 1987: African cinema and cultural identity. Visual Anthropology: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 205-215
In Sorcery's Shadow
African Cinema: Politics and Culture
Films d'Afrique
The Growth of Media in the Third World
New Currents, Ancient Rivers
African Art in Transit
African history and culture studies (8 works) · Geography (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works)