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"Άνθρωποι, Γη, Πνεύματα": σύγχρονος σαμανισμός, λαϊκή θεραπευτική και ο υπερφυσικός κόσμος στη Βορειοανατολική Σκωτία
No full textThis is an ethnographic study on three healers practising shamanism in the North-East Scotland: Terry Mace, Andrew Steed, and Norman Duncan. All three along the course of a lifelong journey of finding themselves spiritually, they encountered shamanistic traditions, and decided to work alongside experienced local teachers specialising in shamanism. Upon their return to the ‘western world’, these three individuals eventually abandoned their previous lives and decided to focus on offering their services as healers of shamanism as well, for the benefit of others.This study, therefore, examines the lives and work of these three people as healers of shamanism, explores the diverse character of their practices and ideas, and attempts to tease out some distinctive aspects of their experiences, knowledge and work. However, primarily, it aims to place contemporary ‘western world’ healers as the ones in this study into the wider academic concept of shamanism, comparing them to ‘traditional’ practitioners through looking at their differences and similarities. Moreover, it also attempts to examine whether these three healers are also part of a wider Scottish shamanism phenomenon as in ‘non-western’ traditional shamanistic cultures, or simply emerging phenomena based on distinct and diverse practices and approaches. Finally, even though this a study is not an autoethnography, as the author is not a shamanic healer himself, the reflexive aspect is of high significance in it. Thus, alongside ethnographic findings and academic theories, notions, and conclusions, this research will also reflect and touch upon how the author’s involvement with these three individuals and their communities also informed, influenced and affected its understandings and conclusions.Η διδακτορική διατριβή επρόκειτο για μια εθνογραφική μελέτη για τρεις θεραπευτές που ασκούσαν και συνεχίζουν να ασκούν τεχνικές σαμανισμού στη Βορειοανατολική Σκωτία. Οι τρεις αυτοί θεραπευτές ήταν ο Terry Mace, ο Andrew Steed και ο Norman Duncan, με τους οποίους δούλεψα χρονολογικά εθνογραφικά ως βασικούς συντελεστές της έρευνάς μου. Και οι τρεις σαμανικοί θεραπευτές κατά τη διάρκεια ενός δια βίου ταξιδιού ώστε να ανακαλύψουν την πνευματική τους ταυτότητα, ήρθαν σε επικοινωνία και επαφή με τοπικές σαμανιστικές παραδόσεις σε διάφορα μέρη του κόσμου, και αποφάσισαν να εργαστούν μαζί με έμπειρους τοπικούς δασκάλους που ειδικεύονται στον σαμανισμό μετά από πρόσκληση των τελευταίων. Ο Mace δούλεψε για τρία χρόνια με θεραπευτές των Μαορί και των Νοτιοδυτικών Αβοριγίνων στην Αυστραλία, ο Steed με Ιθαγενείς Αμερικανούς για δέκα χρόνια στις ΗΠΑ, και ο Duncan με Περουβιανούς και Χιλιανούς θεραπευτές (curanderos). Με την επιστροφή τους στον «δυτικό κόσμο», και οι τρεις αποφάσισαν να εγκαταλείψουν οριστικά την προηγούμενή τους ζωή, και αντ’αυτού να επικεντρωθούν αποκλειστικά στην προσφορά των υπηρεσιών τους ως θεραπευτές του σαμανισμού προς όφελος των άλλων, όπως ακριβώς και οι δάσκαλοί τους.Αυτή η μελέτη, εξέτασε εθνογραφικά τη ζωή και το έργο αυτών των τριών ανθρώπων ως θεραπευτές του σαμανισμού, διερεύνησε το διαφορετικό χαρακτήρα των πρακτικών και των ιδεών τους, και προσπάθησε να αναδείξει ορισμένες διακριτικές πτυχές των εμπειριών, της γνώσης και του τρόπου θεραπείας τους. Ωστόσο, πρωτίστως, στόχευσε να τοποθετήσει τους σύγχρονους σαμανικούς θεραπευτές του «δυτικού κόσμου», όπως ήταν αυτοί στη συγκεκριμένη μελέτη, στην ευρύτερη ακαδημαϊκή έννοια του σαμανισμού, συγκρίνοντάς τους με τους αντίστοιχους «παραδοσιακούς» θεραπευτές, και εξετάζοντας τις διαφορές και τις ομοιότητές τους. Επιπλέον, προσπάθησε να εξετάσει εάν αυτοί οι τρεις θεραπευτές αποτελούν μέρος ενός ευρύτερου φαινομένου σαμανισμού στη Σκωτία, όπως δηλαδή συμβαίνει και στους παραδοσιακούς «μη δυτικούς» σαμανιστικούς πολιτισμούς, ή απλά επρόκειτο για αναδυόμενα φαινόμενα, βασισμένα σε ποικίλες και διαφορετικές μεταξύ τους πρακτικές και προσεγγίσεις.Τέλος, παρόλο που αυτή η μελέτη δεν ήταν μια αυτοεθνογραφία, καθώς ο συγγραφέας δεν είναι ο ίδιος σαμανικός θεραπευτής, η αντανακλαστική πλευρά της έρευνας, όπως σε κάθε σύγχρονη εθνογραφική έρευνα, είχε μεγάλη σημασία και αντίκτυπο όχι μόνον στη διαδικασία μελέτης και μετέπειτα συγγραφής της διατριβής, αλλά και στην αντίληψη και προσέγγιση του ερευνητή όσον αφορά φαινόμενα πνευματικά και υπερφυσικά όπως ο σαμανισμός. Έτσι, παράλληλα με τα εθνογραφικά ευρήματα και τις ακαδημαϊκές θεωρίες, έννοιες και τα συμπεράσματα που αναλύονται καθ’όλην την μελέτη, αυτή η έρευνα αντανακλά επίσης και αγγίζει το γεγονός πώς η συμμετοχή του συγγραφέα με αυτά τα τρία άτομα και τις κοινότητές τους επηρέασε και επέδρασε στις αντιλήψεις και στα συμπεράσματά της.Να σημειωθεί ότι αναπόσπαστο μέρος της διατριβής ήταν η αρχειοθέτηση, η ψηφιοποίηση και η καταλογοποίηση του εθνογραφικού υλικού της επιτόπιας έρευνας, ενώ επίσης να τονιστεί ότι η έρευνα ακολούθησε τους κανόνες της Δεοντολογικής Επιτροπής του Πανεπιστημίου του Αμπερντίν και τα πρωτόκολλα Δεοντολογίας του Οργανισμού Προφορικής Ιστορίας (Oral History Society), ενώ όλοι οι συντελεστές της συμπλήρωσαν τις φόρμες συναίνεσης του Ινστιτούτου Elphinstone για τη συμμετοχή τους στην έρευνα
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
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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