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Le froid comme objet de savoir
Full text linkIntroduction à un recueil d'études sur le froid, notion multidisciplinaire très relative. Les auteurs relèvent trois schèmes principaux dans l'étude du froid: l'espace froid, la période froide et le passage de l'eau à un état solide
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Full text linkOn 5 February 2024, Professor Jean Malaurie passed away at his home in Dieppe at the age of 101. Having refused to join the compulsory work service (STO – Service du travail obligatoire) of the Nazi occupant in 1943, he went into hiding, joining the Résistance movement, an act of recalcitrance which characterized him profoundly and which was to entitle him to military honours during his funeral. The ceremony took place at the Saint-Louis-des-Invalides Cathedral in Paris on 14 February 2024, followed by the military honours and eulogy pronounced by the French Minister of Higher Education and Research, Professor Sylvie Retailleau.
It is with emotion that the editorial board of Inter-Nord wishes him farewell, paying a last tribute to the President of honour of our journal which he had founded with historian Fernand Braudel at the CNRS in the 1960s. We are publishing in French and English the homily of Father Geoffroy de la Tousche, the final remarks by Jean Malaurie’s son Guillaume and the minister’s speech, as well as a homage published in Le Canard enchaîné and a letter of condolences by Mrs Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO.
Inter-Nord 23 continues in the interdisciplinary and intersectorial vein which has been its imprint introduced by Jean Malaurie right from the start, trying to propose bilingual versions of texts as far as possible. The current issue contains a special section with three scientific research articles on Iceland, two of which were first presented at the annual Humanities conference of the University of Iceland in 2023. These texts are accompanied by graphic works of the Icelandic artist Thóra Sigurðardóttir. Many thanks to Thóra for letting us publish some of her intriguing artwork discussed in a stunning piece by the Icelandic poetess Sigurbjörg Thrastardóttir.
In the creative writing section, we are also publishing two pieces by the Quebecois author Monique Durand about the Faroe Islands and interviews with Alaskan author Nancy Lord and the journalist Olivera Tornau. Other contributions include a viewpoint signed by four UArctic Chairs, an original French research project and some reviews of Malaurie’s and other works
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Full text linkInter-Nord 24 is largely dedicated to Alaska. On the front and back covers feature three Yup’ik masks brought back to Pennsylvania by Moravian missionaries in the early 20th century. They are now held in the collections of the Moravian Historical Society in Nazareth, PA, USA, to which we are grateful for granting permission to publish these images. The front cover also includes a photograph from a series taken by Bruce Jackson during his field trip with Jean Malaurie to Nome and its region in 1997. Many thanks to Bruce for letting us reprint several of his images.
The issue’s contributions dedicated to Alaska include three peer-reviewed scientific articles, two student research papers from the University of Vienna based on field work, introduced by Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk, and two interviews: one with Iñupiaq contemporary artist Aisa Warden conducted by Daniel Chartier and the other with Mrs Lyn Trodahl Chynoweth, daughter of a Moravian missionary who grew up at Nunapitsinghak, site of the Moravian Children’s Home on the Kwethluk, a tributary to the Kuskokwim river, conducted by Benjamin Ferguson, as well as polar readings offered by Muriel Brot.
Inter-Nord 24 also pays homage to British poet and anthropologist Tom Lowenstein who passed away in March 2025 in his 84th year. Tom was notably the author of the acclaimed volume Ancient Land: Sacred Whale (1993, republished 1999). We are grateful to his literary executors to have authorised us to republish two longer excerpts, accompanied by translations into French for which we would like to sincerely thank Professor Hélène Aji of the École normale supérieure in Paris. Hélène had translated these poems on the occasion of the international conference “Problèmes arctiques : environnement, sociétés et patrimoine/ Arctic problems: environment, societies and heritage” organised by Jean Malaurie and myself at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris in March 2007 during the Fourth International Polar Year. Tom was one of the invited speakers, contributing a paper about his then forthcoming history of Point Hope, Alaska, Ultimate Americans (University of Alaska Press, 2008) published in Inter-Nord 21 (2011, pp. 149-152). Tom has published a fascinating volume about his field work, The Structure of Days Out (2021) which has not received the attention it deserves so far. Farewell to the poet!
Inter-Nord 24 also features three other peer-reviewed scientific articles in the section entitled “Varia”, illustrating the fact that we are open to scientific papers on any topic in relation to the Arctic. It also contains a viewpoint. Many thanks to all contributors
Grand froit – ungeheure kelte – frigitas magna”. How cold was experienced and described in the 1430s, one of the coldest decades of the last Millennium
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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
L ’autochtonie comparée des Amériques. Droit et représentations culturelles
Full text linkL’autochtonie caractérise les Amériques. Cet essai collectif est issu d’une démarche pluridisciplinaire inédite de collaboration entre le Québec, l’Argentine et la France, qui a réuni des participants de communautés autochtones (Abénakis, Aimaras, Atikamekw, Innus, Mapuches et Wichis) et des chercheurs de plusieurs disciplines. Il place la question de la territorialité autochtone dans les Amériques au cœur d’enjeux contemporains, tant politiques, juridiques qu’environnementaux. Ce livre s’inscrit dans une démarche visant à explorer et à comparer les diverses conceptions du territoire et des rapports humains avec le monde vivant, telles qu’elles sont perçues par les peuples autochtones à travers l’hémisphère Nord et Sud. À l’intersection du droit, des études littéraires et culturelles, de la recherche-création, des études autochtones et de la science politique, ce livre réunit des spécialistes qui interrogent les fondements, les effets et les principes sous-jacents à la territorialité autochtone.
Avec des chapitres de Geneviève Bélisle, Véronique Basile Hébert, Jan Borm, Leila Devia, Patrick Jacob, Federico Merino, Thierry Rodon, Ana Kancepolsky-Teichmann, Laura Perez-Gauvreau, Daniel Chartier et Martina L. Rojo.
Ce livre est publié par le Laboratoire international de recherche sur l’imaginaire du Nord, de l’hiver et de l’Arctique, dirigé à l’Université du Québec à Montréal par Daniel Chartier, en collaboration avec les Ediciones Universidad del Salvador (Argentine)
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
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