Robert Launay

1.3k total citations
50 papers, 660 citations indexed

About

Robert Launay is a scholar working on Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Launay has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 660 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Anthropology, 16 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 13 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Robert Launay's work include Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (10 papers), Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria (10 papers) and African Studies and Ethnography (8 papers). Robert Launay is often cited by papers focused on Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (10 papers), Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria (10 papers) and African Studies and Ethnography (8 papers). Robert Launay collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Philippines. Robert Launay's co-authors include Esther N. Goody, Benjamin F. Soares, Rachel G. Fuchs, Candice Bradley, Susan Greenhalgh, David I. Kertzer, Caroline Bledsoe, Peter Schneider, E. A. Hammel and Tom Fricke and has published in prestigious journals such as American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist and The International Journal of African Historical Studies.

In The Last Decade

Robert Launay

38 papers receiving 472 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Launay United States	11	336	153	133	128	116	50	660
Mary E. John India	15	320 1.0×	91 0.6×	195 1.5×	36 0.3×	118 1.0×	37	640
Lionel Caplan United Kingdom	13	314 0.9×	168 1.1×	140 1.1×	36 0.3×	187 1.6×	49	694
Helena Ragoné United States	8	214 0.6×	62 0.4×	141 1.1×	45 0.4×	43 0.4×	14	531
Tom Fricke United States	10	225 0.7×	39 0.3×	270 2.0×	39 0.3×	32 0.3×	18	529
Barbara E. Harrell-Bond United Kingdom	16	865 2.6×	154 1.0×	45 0.3×	43 0.3×	329 2.8×	47	1.2k
Dennis D. Cordell United States	11	320 1.0×	187 1.2×	34 0.3×	24 0.2×	86 0.7×	46	548
Edwin D. Driver United States	15	336 1.0×	35 0.2×	175 1.3×	39 0.3×	58 0.5×	51	710
Candice Bradley United States	7	137 0.4×	42 0.3×	116 0.9×	50 0.4×	24 0.2×	18	371
Delia Davin United Kingdom	15	593 1.8×	32 0.2×	306 2.3×	38 0.3×	263 2.3×	45	820
Pauline Kolenda United States	13	272 0.8×	219 1.4×	118 0.9×	19 0.1×	185 1.6×	38	610

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Launay, Robert. (2022). Defining Religion: Durkheim and Weber Compared. Religions. 13(2). 89–89. 4 indexed citations

Launay, Robert. (2015). Werthmann, Katja & Sanogo, Mamadou Lamine (dir.). La ville de Bobo-Dioulasso au Burkina Faso. Urbanité et appartenances en Afrique de l’Ouest. Paris, Karthala, 2013. Cahiers d études africaines. 2 indexed citations

Launay, Robert. (2015). Kobo, Ousman Murzik. Unveiling Modernity in Twentieth-Century West African Islamic Reforms. Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2012. Cahiers d études africaines. 5 indexed citations

Launay, Robert. (2011). Myth and Music: The Musical Epigraphs to The Raw and the Cooked. 7(1). 83–90. 1 indexed citations

Launay, Robert, et al.. (2009). Comment (ne pas) lire le Coran? Logiques de l’enseignement religieux au Sénégal et en Côte d’Ivoire. 127–145. 1 indexed citations

Launay, Robert. (2007). Engaging modernity: Muslim women and the politics of agency in postcolonial Niger. Contemporary Islam. 1(3). 327–329. 1 indexed citations

Launay, Robert. (2003). Tasting the World: Food in Early European Travel Narratives. Food and Foodways. 11(1). 27–47. 7 indexed citations

Launay, Robert, et al.. (2002). Two Sisters and Their Mother: The Anthropology of Incest. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 35(2/3). 565–565. 7 indexed citations

Launay, Robert. (1999). Stereotypic Vision : the "Moral Character" of the Senufo in Colonial and Postcolonial Discourse. Cahiers d études africaines. 39(154). 271–292. 4 indexed citations

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Launay, Robert. (1998). Knowledgeable muslims. Reviews in Anthropology. 27(4). 379–391. 1 indexed citations

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Launay, Robert. (1997). Spirit media: the electronic media and Islam among the Dyula of northern Côte d'Ivoire. Africa. 67(3). 441–453. 23 indexed citations

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Greenhalgh, Susan, David I. Kertzer, Anthony T. Carter, et al.. (1995). Situating Fertility. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 176 indexed citations

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Salamone, Frank A. & Robert Launay. (1994). Beyond the Stream: Islam and Society in a West African Town. African Studies Review. 37(3). 126–126. 4 indexed citations

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Launay, Robert & Andrew Apter. (1994). Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba Society. Ethnohistory. 41(3). 505–505. 6 indexed citations

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Launay, Robert. (1992). Representations and misrepresentations: Is there life after positivism?. Reviews in Anthropology. 21(3). 181–192.

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Launay, Robert. (1990). Cruise O'brien, Donal & Coulon, Christian, eds. - Charisma and Brotherhood in African Islam. Cahiers d études africaines. 30(117). 117–118. 1 indexed citations

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Launay, Robert. (1989). Amselle, Jean-Loup. - Logiques métisses. Anthropologie de l'identité en Afrique et ailleurs. Persée (Ministère de lEnseignement supérieur et de la Recherche). 1 indexed citations

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Launay, Robert & Jean‐Pierre Dozon. (1986). La société bété: Côte d'Ivoire. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines. 20(2). 285–285. 8 indexed citations

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Launay, Robert & Michel Verdon. (1985). The Abutia Ewe of West Africa: A Chiefdom That Never Was. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines. 19(3). 681–681. 10 indexed citations

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Launay, Robert & David Seddon. (1979). Relations of Production: Marxist Approaches to Economic Anthropology. ASA Review of Books. 5. 222–222. 19 indexed citations

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