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Provincializing European Witchcraft: Thoughts on Peter Geschiere’s Latest Synthesis
Full text linkThis review essay offers a reaction to Peter Geschiere’s Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust. Geschiere’s book argues hat witchcraft is essentially about the paradox that the group of people with whom we are most intimate (neighbors and kin) has, by virtue of its intimacy, tremendous power and a potentially dangerous hold over us. The remedy for this paradox is trust; when trust fails, witchcraft appears. While Geschiere’s study is primarily grounded in African witchcraft, the present essay considers the possibilities these ideas may hold for the study of witchcraft phenomena on a global scale, both historically and sociology, in other parts of the world, and especially for those who focus on Western EuropeThis article is published as Bailey, Michael D. "Provincializing European Witchcraft: Thoughts on Peter Geschiere's Latest Synthesis." Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 10, no. 1 (2015): 75-96. 10.1353/mrw.2015.0005. Posted with permission.</p
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
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
Devils, Community, and its Boundaries
No full textThis chapter examines accusations of diabolism as a mechanism for exclusion from Christian society. It draws on R. I. Moore's influential paradigm of a “persecuting society” that developed in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, and explores how far this paradigm can be extended to the increasingly severe demonisation of magic in the 14th and 15th centuries, leading up to the early modern witch hunts. Moore himself suggested that early modern witch-hunting represented the most obvious continuation of his persecuting society, but scholars of magic and witchcraft have not taken up his framework in any major way. Through a series of case studies, the chapter shows how the most intensely demonic forms of magic in the late medieval period were positioned initially at the very heart of Christian society but were increasingly used as a mechanism to set suspected practitioners outside that society. The main agents of this development are shown to be akin to those identified by Moore. While earlier groups that had already been identified for exclusion and persecution were demonised, in these centuries, demonisation became the principal grounds for group-construction and exclusion.This accepted book chapter is published as Bailey, Michael., “Devils, Community and its Boundaries,” in The Routledge History of the Devil in the Western Tradition, ed. Richard Raiswell, Michelle Brock, and David Winter (London: Routledge) 2025, Chapter 5;90-105. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003096603-6
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
Pyrotechnic device reliability
Full text linkThis report looks at the problem of determining when to award bonuses for reliability improvement in pyrotechnic devices based on data gathered under a lot acceptance sampling plan.Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.N4802991WXPM454NANaval Weapons Support Center, Crane, Indiana.http://archive.org/details/pyrotechnicdevic00ozk
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