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Trapped in Time: Gender Representation in Archaeological Museum Exhibitions in Europe
No full textThis chapter assesses the extent to which gender-informed
narratives exist in archaeological exhibitions in Europe in
the twenty-first century. It does so by examining a selection
of permanent and temporary exhibitions organised in
museums but not exclusively, based on the authors’ per
sonal observations during museum visits and the review of
current publications on gender in archaeological museums.
The chapter argues that the integration of gender- balanced
and diverse representations, and of the current knowledge
about gender in the archaeological past, is rather the excep
tion than the norm in European exhibitions. The chapter
explores the multiple reasons behind this reality, which
vary from the communication gap between gender archae
ologists and museum professionals, to mentalities embed
ded in conservative socio- cultural contexts, priorities of
political agendas, funding, as well as little awareness of, or
openness to, gender issues
Let’s Talk About Gender—The Place of Gender in Current Archaeological Debates
No full textThis chapter, and the volume that it introduces, situates gender in current archaeological debates. The central argument is that gender archaeology as a field of study is in crisis, although some research communities are better positioned than others. This predicament not only affects the relevance and credibility of the field before the larger archaeological community, but also the circumstances in which gender-concerned archaeologists conduct their research. First, we assess the state of gender archaeology in Europe and North America, attempting to find explanations and propose solutions for the field’s decline. We then review the place of gender within the major theoretical and methodological debates which have influenced archaeology in the past decade, especially in Western research traditions, such as the Third Science Revolution, posthumanism, new materialism, intersectionality, mobility, and violence. We argue that although gender has largely been absent from these debates, this should be an inseparable component of research and narratives on the human past. Finally, we explore the impact of present global tensions and online trends in the dissemination, visibility and accessibility of archaeological gender research
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
The history of conflict archaeology
No full textThe chapter acknowledges the wide range of themes and approaches that sit beneath the overarching umbrella of conflict archaeology. These include battlefield archaeology, which, as this chapter proposes, is a distinct subfield of conflict archaeology rather than a less nuanced precursor to conflict archaeology as some practitioners have implied. Over recent decades, conflict archaeology has been among the fastest growing subdisciplines within the wider archaeological academy. It does however have a deeper history, and this chapter traces its evolution in Europe and the United States over the last century and more, identifying key landmarks and providing summary case studies where appropriate. The Western focus of the chapter is primarily due to space constraints; wherever possible, references have been made to non-Western contributions
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