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Iconoclasia y 'aniconismo': correspondencias entre el mundo islámico y el mundo cristiano
No full textIconographic horizons in Venezuela: regional and historic differences
Full text linkEl artículo explora las tradiciones iconográficas del Período
Prehispánico halladas en territorios de la actual Venezuela.
A nivel arqueológico y etnográfico se identifica una mayor
presencia de estatuillas de uso votivo en el septentrión venezolano,
mientras que al sur del Orinoco prácticamente
no se han encontrado vestigios de aquellas. Las crónicas de
los Períodos Colonial y Republicano ya documentan estas
diferencias, remarcando las prácticas idolátricas en el norte
y la ausencia de idolatría en el sur. Por ello, proponemos la
presencia de horizontes iconográficos u ontologías visuales
que discurren de forma independiente de la estilística alfarera
o las familias lingüísticas.This article explores the iconographic traditions of the Pre-Hispanic Period in the territory of what is now Venezuela. While archaeological and ethnographic votive statuettes are abundant in Northern Venezuela, south of the Orinoco River hardly any trace of those objects has been found. Chronicles from the Colonial and Republican periods have already documented that difference, highlighting the presence of idolatrous practices in the north and an absence of idolatry in the south. Given this scenario, in this article we attempt to identify the presence of iconographic horizons or visual ontologies that are independent of ceramic styles or linguistic families
Iconoclasia y 'aniconismo': correspondencias entre el mundo islámico y el mundo cristiano
No full textEntretejidos ye’kuana: oralidad, mito, artesanía
No full textAbstract: This article explores indigenous art-crafts of the Ye’kuana society of the Venezuelan Amazon. In particular, it focuses on its basketry: its mythical meaning as well as its importance as a mediator with the criollo or Westernized world. We aim to show how these oral traditions and their visual languages have permeated their myths and bodies of ancestral knowledge over time and resisted abrupt changes, such as their contact with the European or “Western” world. In this way, we contrast the valuation of their craftwork by the criollo or Westernized market with the value given to it by the cultures which produce them. This study shows the extent to which oral cultures are capable of shaping and adapting themselves to new contingencies and sociocultural exigencies, without losing their ancestral knowledge.Resumo: Este artigo esboça um percorrido pelo artesanato da sociedade indígena ye’kuana da Amazônia venezuelana; em particular, foca-se na cestaria, seu significado mítico e sua importância atual como mediadora com o mundo crioulo ou ocidentalizado. Pretendemos demonstrar a capacidade que as tradições orais e suas linguagens visuais têm para permear seus mitos e conhecimentos ancestrais pelo tempo e por mudanças inesperadas, como foi o contato com o mundo de tradição europeia ou “ocidental”. Desse modo, contrastamos a valorização que tem, por um lado, o artesanato para o mundo do mercado crioulo ou ocidentalizado com os significados que esta tem para as culturas que a produzem. Com isso, esperamos verificar até que ponto as culturas orais são capazes de serem moldadas e adaptadas a novos tempos e exigências socioculturais, sem perder seus conhecimentos ancestrais.Resumen: El siguiente artículo esboza un recorrido por la artesanía de la sociedad indígena ye’kuana del Amazonas venezolano; en particular, se centra en la cestería, su significado mítico y su importancia actual como mediadora con el mundo criollo u occidentalizado. Deseamos demostrar la capacidad que tienen las tradiciones orales y sus lenguajes visuales para permear sus mitos y conocimientos ancestrales a través del tiempo, y de cambios abruptos, como lo ha sido el contacto con el mundo de tradición europea u “occidental”. De este modo, contrastamos la valoración que tiene, por un lado, la artesanía para el mundo del mercado criollo u occidentalizado con los significados que esta tiene para las culturas que la producen. Con ello esperamos verificar hasta qué punto las culturas orales son capaces de moldearse y adaptarse a nuevos tiempos y exigencias socioculturales, sin perder sus conocimientos ancestrales
¿Arte o artesanía? Imaginarios occidentales sobre la autenticidad del arte en culturas indígenas
No full textEste artículo reflexiona acerca de las categorías estéticas entre las nociones de arte y artesanía en objetos procedentes de culturas no-occidentales. Usando como ejemplo el caso venezolano, se compararán el “arte” prehispánico con las “artesanías” procedentes de sociedades amerindias en las que se entretejen las tradiciones ancestrales y las formas de vida occidentalizadas. La diferenciación en el juicio entre una y otra forma estética se debe a que al arte de sociedades indígenas alejadas del mundo occidentalizado se le atribuye una autenticidad artística, mientras que la artesanía pierde su autenticidad cuando es producto de una sociedad que está en proceso de mestizaje con Occidente. Se intentará, por tanto, proponer alternativas interpretativas tomando en cuenta los significados queestos objetos tienen desde la perspectiva de las sociedades indígenas actuales
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
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