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Miniaturization and abstraction in the Later Stone Age
No full textThis paper was submitted in its current form to Biological Theory in June 2021. It was returned with a request for a major revisions in October 2021, but unfortunately I was not able to work on it further due to teaching and other research commitments, and have now run out of time altogether
3D scanning of stone tools : Quantity versus Quality
No full textAt the ArcheObjets3D workshop (29-30 Juni 2016, Maison de l'Orient, Lyon) we were treated to some fine examples of high resolution scanning and the beautiful results that they can produce. As in many things though, there is a trade-off between quality and quantity. Unless you have a dedicated scanning lab like the Israel Antiquities Authority, it is necessary to come to some compromise between the two. My own work has always taken a statistical approach to the analysis of stone artefacts in o..
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
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