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Abraham e Isaac, personajes de una epifanía en una comunidad indígena de Yucatán
No full textIn the village of Dzitnup, in the eastern Yucatan, lives a Mayan-speaking peasant community which has kept a centenary tradition: the annual dialogued dance celebration from Christmas to the Epiphany between Abraham and Isaac. This dance, performed in the atrium and interior of the small parish church, aims to show how Abraham and Isaac protect Baby Jesus (in a crib inside the church) from a possible kidnapping by the Devil and from Evil. Three performers take part in the representation and constantly interact with the attending public, principally with children. The question is: What relationship could Abraham and Isaac have with the Christmas festivities? Is it a spontaneous adaptation of Mayan Indians to Christian liturgy or might we be witness to a festival with possible medieval antecedents? An historical trace of evangelist procedures in Yucatan in the 16th and 17th Centuries will be attempted in order to track a link between those events and the festivals presently celebrated by the Mayan Indians. The article will lay out the celebration s structure and attempt to suggest the diverse sources behind this particular Yucatan feast.En el poblado de Dzitnup, en el oriente de Yucatán, se asienta una comunidad campesina maya parlante que ha preservado una tradición centenaria: la celebración anual, desde la Navidad hasta la Epifanía, de una danza dialogada de Abraham e Isaac. Esta danza se lleva a cabo en el atrio y en el interior de la pequeña iglesia parroquial del lugar. El propósito de esta danza es mostrar la manera en que Abraham e Isaac protegen al Niño Dios (que se encuentra en un pesebre en el interior de la iglesia) del posible rapto del Diablo o del Mal. Participan tres ejecutantes en la representación y constantemente interactúan con el público asistente, principalmente con los niños. La pregunta es: ¿qué relación pueden tener Abraham e Isaac con las celebraciones navideñas? ¿Se trata de una espontánea adaptación de los indígenas mayas a la liturgia cristiana o podríamos estar ante un festejo con posibles antecedentes medievales? Trataremos de hacer un recorrido histórico de los procedimientos de evangelización en Yucatán en los siglos XVI y XVII para poder rastrear una comunicación entre esos acontecimientos y las fiestas que actualmente celebran los indígenas mayas. El artículo explicará la estructura de la celebración y tratará de plantear las diversas fuentes de esta peculiar fiesta yucateca
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Abraham E. Hiebert Oral History
Full text linkAbraham Hiebert was interviewed by Darryl Podoll on May 16, 1975 for approximately 23 minutes.https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/oralhistories/1064/thumbnail.jp
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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