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Chapando com Benjamin e Burroughs
Get PDFThe author explores Walter Benjamin’s experiences with hashish and William Burroughs’s experiences with yage?, reflecting about the influence of these substances on the authors’s narrative styles. The discussion revolves around the importance of the authors’ trips – both in the sense of physical displacements and the effects of the substances they consumed – for their ways of collecting and inventing stories and ethnographic descriptions.O autor explora as experie?ncias de Walter Benjamin com o haxixe e as de William Burroughs com o yage?, ensaiando uma reflexa?o sobre a influe?ncia do uso dessas substa?ncias nos estilos narrativos dos autores. A discussa?o gira em torno da importa?ncia das viagens dos autores – tanto no sentido de deslocamentos fi?sicos quanto de efeitos das substa?ncias que consumiam – para seus modos de coletar e inventar histo?rias e descric?o?es etnogra?ficas
"Trodding out of Babylon": linguagem, pessoa e formas de tradução Rastafari
Get PDFDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social, Florianópolis, 2014.Trata-se, nesta dissertação, de seguir algumas formas através das quais Rastafaris traduzem em suas narrativas, seus corpos e seus conceitos as suas experiências, suas expectativas, sua história, seus conflitos e dissensos. Os Rastas acusam o colonizador branco europeu de ter alterado a história do Criador, Jah, e do Homem, afim de tentar subjugar o Homem Negro, a criatura original. Uma das principais formas de promover estas alterações, dizem os Rastas, se dá através da edição e da tradução dos textos bíblicos. Não é apenas a tradução de um idioma para o outro que concorre para a alteração das narrativas sagradas: as formas de vivenciar as narrativas - de tornar a palavra em carne - também são traduções, e através delas a Babilônia - o dominador - falsifica as prescrições do Criador. Na tentativa de tentar subjugar o Homem Negro a Babilônia também criou um idioma, criou conceitos e fabricou narrativas. Os Rastas, entretanto, atentaram para as armadilhas do idioma inglês, a language of the master, e desenvolveram métodos para escrutiná-lo. Afim de se diferenciar da Babilônia os Rastas também vêm fabricando uma linguagem para si, um idioma com conceitos que procuram ser positivos. Para além das narrativas e de um idioma, os Rastas também procuram se diferenciar fisicamente da Babilônia, cultivando seus corpos de acordo com prescrições sagradas que traduzem da Bíblia. Algo que se destaca nos corpos Rastafari e nas narrativas nativas que tratam dele é a positivação da negritude e da africanidade. O corpo Rasta conecta a negritude à africanidade e ao Criador; a alimentação às relações sociais e históricas; os dreadlocks às prescrições bíblicas; a cannabis à saúde, à noção de I - um conceito importante que remete ao elo entre a pessoa rastafari e Deus - e à sabedoria. Tanto o idioma corporal quanto o idioma verbal dos Rastafari são instrumentos acionados pelos irmãos e irmãs no processo de deslocamento da Babilônia em direção a Sião, deslocamento que se dá tanto no plano físico quanto no plano intelectual. Abstract : My aim, in this dissertation, was to follow some of the ways through which Rastafarians translate into narratives, bodies and concepts their experiences, expectations, history, conflicts and disagreements. The Rastas accuse the white European colonizers of having modified the history of the Creator, Jah, and of Man, in order to try to subdue the Black Man, the original creature. One of the main ways to work these modifications, the Rastas say, is through the editing and translation of biblical texts. But it is not just through the translations from one language to another that the alteration of the sacred narratives work: the ways of experiencing these narrative - to make the word flesh - are also translations, and through them Babylon ? the dominator ? falsifies the prescriptions of the Creator. In the attempt to subdue the Black Man, Babylon has also created a language, concepts, and narratives. The Rastas , however, pay attention to the pitfalls of the English language, the language of the master, and have developed methods to scrutinize it. In order to operate a differentiation from Babylon the Rastas have also fabricated a language for themselves, a language with concepts meant to be positive. In addition to the differentiations they work through their narratives and language, the Rastas also seek to differentiate themselves from Babylon physically, cultivating their bodies according to sacred prescriptions they translate from the Bible . Something that stands out in the Rastas' bodies and in the narratives regarding it is the positivization of blackness and Africanness. The Rasta body connects blackness and Africanness to the Creator; it connects a way of alimentation to social and historical relations; it links the dreadlocks to biblical prescriptions; it relates cannabis to physical health and to the notion of I - an important concept that refers to the link between the person and God -, of Rastafari and wisdom. Both the body language and the verbal language of Rastafari are tools worked by brothers and sisters in the process of displacement from Babylon toward Zion; displacement that occurs both in the physical and in the intellectual planes
"Every man do his ting a little way different": poética, política e dissenso entre rastas em Kingston, Jamaica
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social, Florianópolis, 2018.Esta tese é uma etnografia dos modos de diferenciação mobilizados por Rastas em Kingston, Jamaica. Não se trata apenas de pensar em como Rastas se diferenciam de não-Rastas, mas também, e especialmente, como Rastas se diferenciam de outros Rastas. O foco está voltado para os modos como diferentes pessoas e coletivos Rastafari em Kingston e seus arredores articulam conceitos e práticas relacionados ao tropo do Retorno à África ou Repatriação ; como narram e mobilizam histórias sobre o passado e o futuro na Jamaica e na África e como fazem diferentes usos e reflexões sobre os usos da ganja. A abordagem destes temas sob o viés dos modos de diferenciação dialoga com um dos objetivos centrais desta tese: criticar a ideia recorrente na literatura sobre o Rastafari jamaicano que postula a existência de um núcleo comum de crenças ou princípios subjacente às variações pragmáticas. Como conclusões eu afirmo que as parte percebidas por pesquisadores como pertencentes a um núcleo comum aquilo que se reivindica como raízes africanas, a vontade de Repatriação, a divindade de Haile Selassie I e, certamente, o uso da ganja são pensadas e mobilizadas de modos diferentes de acordo com as motivações políticas e afetivas de cada pessoa ou coletivo Rastafari. Além disso, eu mobilizo a ideia de que os dissensos semióticos e políticos entre Rastas não são características negativas ou prejudiciais ao Movimento Rastafari. São justamente estes dissensos que lhe dão vida e estimulam diálogos constantes entre o presente, o passado e o futuro, fazendo de seu repertório simbólico não um arquivo estático, mas sim um arquivo generativo que, ao ser acionado, alimenta as dinâmicas reflexivas de transformação do Movimento.Abstract : This dissertation is an ethnography of the modes of differentiation mobilized by Rastas in Kingston, Jamaica. I am not interested only in how Rastas differentiate from non-Rastas, but also, and especially, in how Rastas differentiate from other Rastas. The focus is on the modes through which different Rastafari individuals and collectives in and around Kingston articulate concepts and practices related to the trope of the Return to Africa or Repatriation ; how they tell and mobilize stories about the past and the future in Jamaica and Africa and how they make different uses and incur in different reflections on the uses of ganja. The approach to these themes through a perspective which emphasizes the modes of differentiation dialogues with one of the main objectives of this dissertation, which is to mobilize a critique to the recurrent idea present in the literature on the Jamaican Rastafari that postulates the existence of a common core of beliefs or principles underlying its pragmatic variations. As a conclusion, I assert that the parts perceived by researchers as belonging to a common core what is claimed as African roots, the will for Repatriation, the divinity of Haile Selassie I, and certainly the uses of ganja are thought of and mobilized in different modes according to the political and affective motivations of each Rastafari person or collective. Furthermore, I mobilize the idea that the semiotic and political dissents between Rastas are not negative or detrimental to the Rastafari Movement. It is precisely these dissents that give life to the Movement and stimulate constant dialogues between the present, the past and the future, making its symbolic repertoire not a static archive, but a generative archive which, when activated, feeds the reflexive dynamics of transformation of the Movement
ROTA Dória. Direção: Gilda Brasileiro. Vitória: Instituto Marlin Azul, 2011. 1 DVD (15 min), color. Projeto Revelando os Brasis. Ano IV.
Get PDFQuando a Inglaterra começou a discutir a supressão do tráfico de escravos no Oceano Atlântico, na primeira década do século XIX, deu-se início à caracterização da instituição peculiar como anacrônica e incompatível com o projeto de civilização que as ditas grandes nações almejavam – ou que, na óptica abolicionista, deveriam almejar. A pressão britânica pela abolição do tráfico de escravos entre a costa oeste africana e o Brasil teve início em 1810, através do Tratado de Aliança e Amizade, assinado pelos soberanos da Grã-Bretanha e de Portugal. Esse contrato “cobrava a restrição do comércio de escravos conduzido pelos portugueses”, como assinalam as historiadoras Beatriz Mamigonian e Keila Grinberg (2007, p. 87)
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
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