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The folk remedies for the sheep treatment
No full textThe paper presents the ethnographic data concerning sheep diseases and their traditional treatment. The research is based on ethnographic data of Tusheti (East mountainous part of Georgia), discusses the habits of sheep farming, describes the deceases and their treatment methods and represents the transformations in nowadays sheep farming.
The folk remedies were elaborated for the particular deceases. The paper demonstrates the special treatment that had been developed over time. Currently, sheep are vactinaited by shepherds if necessary. Remedies for various diseases are also easily available. In fact, the old tools and attitudes of folk treatment are not used any more in practice and have been moved to the memory
Journey of Khevsurs’ Jvarioni to Tusheti
No full textIn Khevsureti, two weeks before the beginning of the religious festivities of Atengenoba held in summer, two ‘Jvarioni’ (two pilgrimage groups) of Khevsurs bearing the Karati and Khakhmat banners would journey to Tusheti, where they would pay homage to their sanctuaries, the shrines of Khakhmati cross and the Karati cross that existed in almost every Tushetian village, and were known under the name the ‘sakhevsuros’ (locals, Tushetian call Khevsurs’).
The Khevsurs’ Jvariani would travel to Tusheti along a long ago established route – after crossing the Borbalo pass, they would start their pilgrimage from the Pirikiti gorge (north of the Caucasus mountain range), then journey all over Tusheti, and return passing the Gometsari gorge, then upstream toward the source of the Alazani river and across the Borbalo mountains, back to Khevsureti, where the Atengen festivities were going to start – the celebration of the Karati khati (shrine) in the Liqoki gorge, by the village of Chalai, the main sanctuary of Kopala, and the celebration of the Khakhmati Jvari (cross, sanctuary) near Khakhmati settlement, at the shrine of Giorgi Naghvarmshvenieri (of beautiful stream).
The sacral niches of Khevsureti sanctuaries in Tusheti should have appeared when the inhabitants of Pkhovi (Pshavi and Khevsureti) evading the enforced spread of Christianity took refuge in Tusheti (The Georgian
Chronicles, 4th c.). Apparently, they took with them into exile some sacral objects from their shrines (displaced persons would take one stone from the main shrine and build a new shrine for that stone in their new
residence, in the form of a niche). The tradition of Jvarioni journey would have started when the main part of the Khevsurs returned back to Pkhovi.
The rituals performed by the Khevsur Jvarioni in Tusheti, in parallel with paying homage to the «Khevsurtsalotsavi» (place of Khevsurs’ worship) niches, included the blessing of the fortresses and houses newly built by the locals, the treatment of the sick; releasing the souls of the unfortunate victims of tragic accidents from the captivity by the avsuli (evil spirits), - as it was believed that the demon of the place had caused the fatal accident and the perished persons would remain imprisoned by it until a Khevsur khutses (presbyter, elder) rescued him by performing prescribed rituals.
The journeys of Khevsur Jvarioni to Tusheti were forcibly stopped in the 1930s as a result of the anti-religious propaganda of the communist regime. The desire to revive this ancient tradition arose recently among
the representatives of the Khevsur and Tush intelligentsia, and through their efforts, in the summer of 2020, the Khevsur Jvarioni moved to Tusheti to pay homage to their shrines. As expected, the ritual appeared to be radically altered – as a testament to the fact that all rituals and practices belong to that specific span of time in which they have originated, and remain alive as long as people have a deep belief in them; This was indeed a proof of the fact that any artificially restored ritual is devoid of real content and is largely just a show in nature.
In both Khevsureti and Tusheti, only phantoms within people’s memory are preserved of the members of the socium that existed in the times during which the above-described customary rituals were performed as a part of living traditions
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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