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Genetic "Mysteries" and International Adoption: The Cultural Impact of Biomedical Technologies on the Adoptive Family Experience*
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Relations: An Anthropological Account. MarilynStrathern. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 288 pp.
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Race, space, secularism, and the writing of history
No full textCollins, John F. 2015. Revolt of the saints: Memory and redemption in the twilight of Brazilian racial democracy. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.Seales, Chad E. 2013. The secular spectacle: Performing religion in a Southern town. Oxford: Oxford University Press.</jats:p
La redescription de l’anthropologie selon Marilyn Strathern
No full textCet article se penche sur la vision de la description anthropologique comme redescription élaborée par Marilyn Strathern. Il éclaire non seulement la façon dont les relations animent l’anthropologie de Strathern, mais aussi la façon dont celle-ci redécrit la discipline elle-même. En effet, la redescription n’est pas un « concept » qui nous permet de « comparer » des « sociétés ». Il s’agit plutôt d’une « relation », désignée comme telle parce qu’elle a besoin des autres pour fonctionner, et qui permet par conséquent d’envisager les connexions/distinctions interpersonnelles et conceptuelles sous un jour nouveau. L’article examine la série de relations qui composent la redescription selon Strathern – depuis le décentrement et l’analogie jusqu’aux rela-tions et à la politique –, soulignant d’emblée l’importance du décentrement qu’elle opère de deux termes clés en anthropologie : la société et l’individu. C’est de ce décentrement qu’émerge la créativité intellectuelle de Strathern : d’une réflexion sur la socialité et la dividualité à la critique de la comparaison classique ; du déploiement de la raison analogique à son travail d’écriture en tant qu’auteur-cyborg ; et du développement d’un nouveau genre anthropologique à la reconceptualisation de la politique anthropologique comme redescription des relations. En allant au cœur même de la pratique anthropologique élaborée par Strathern, en montrant comment chacune de ses analyses est reliée aux autres, cet article vise à initier un nouveau dialogue avec son œuvre. Si le style ethnographique de Strathern demeure un défi, éclairer la cohérence encore peu explorée de son projet redescriptif s’avère en effet une excellente façon d’entamer de nouvelles discussions.This paper elaborates on Strathern’s view of anthropological description as redescription. As such, it not only makes visible how relations animate Strathern’s anthropology, but captures how Strathern redescribes anthropology in turn. Indeed, redescription is not a « concept » that will help us « compare » « societies ». Rather it is a relation, so-called because it requires others to operate, and thus helps us see interpersonal and conceptual connections/ distinctions anew. The paper explores the series of relations that comprise Strathern’s redescription – from displacement and analogy to relations and politics – first emphasizing the importance of Strathern’s displacement of two key anthropological terms, that of society and the individual. From that displacement, it is shown that Strathern’s intellectual creativity follows : from her reflections on sociality and dividuality, to her critique of conventional comparison ; from her deployment of analogical reason, to her writing as cyborgian author ; and from the development of a new anthropological genre, to her reconception of anthropological politics as the redescription of relations. In going to the heart of Strathern’s anthropological practice, showing how each analytic is related to the other, the piece hopes to facilitate new engagement with her work. Although the challenge of her ethnographic style will remain, elucidating the rarely-explored coherence of her project is a good way to begin new discussions
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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