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La rivoluzione aristocratica : 'insignia dignitatis' nell'età del bronzo, dal Caucaso meridionale all'Egeo
No full textSpade, asce, diademi ma anche altre tipologie di armi e gioielli, stendardi o ancora materiali preziosi come lapislazzuli, corniola e ossidiana sono tutti oggetti che si ritrovano all’interno delle cosiddette “tombe reali” e sono portatori di valori nobiliari e militari. La loro rapida diffusione documenta un sostanziale cambiamento nella società dell’Età del Bronzo, che non è audace definire come una vera e propria “rivoluzione aristocratica”. La nascita di una nuova élite dominante che mantiene il potere attraverso l’esercizio militare è documentata in differenti aree geografiche, in particolare nel Caucaso del Sud, in Anatolia, nelle isole dell’Egeo, a Creta e nella Grecia continentale. Insignia dignitatis sono tutti quei preziosi oggetti che accompagnano i “defunti di rango” anche dopo la loro morte. Per comprendere appieno questo fenomeno bisogna analizzare la diffusione dei materiali sia prendendo in considerazione sia il passaggio dal Caucaso all’Anatolia, sia le vie di comunicazione verso l’Egeo e infine l’integrazione dei due diversi circuiti. Ma lo scopo ultimo del lavoro è di esaminare il significato simbolico e antropologico delle diverse classi di materiale per comprenderne appieno il loro valore intrinseco; solo così sarà possibile definire in modo più preciso le dimensioni di questa rivoluzione sociale guidata dal potere aristocratico
POWER OF SYMBOLS OR SYMBOLS OF POWER? The "long sword" in the Near East and the Aegean in the second millennium BC
No full textA new type of weapon, which would become one of the emblems of an emerging military aristocracy, appears in the cultural landscape of the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean of the second millennium BC. This is the so-called long sword, an object with a strong symbolic value that accompanies the warriors even after their death; in fact, it is often part of the funerary equipment of sumptuous elite tombs from the Southern Caucasus to Greece. A corpus of about 200 swords originating from the Southern Caucasus, Anatolia, the Levant and the Aegean region, with descriptions previously dispersed in a large number of publications, is the basis upon which some considerations about the origins, development and diffusion of this new type of weapon are advanced here. Furthermore, the joint analysis of the contexts of discovery of the items, the iconographic and, when available, the written sources, makes it possible to advance some hypotheses about the symbolic values of the 'long sword' and the aristocratic ideals which it embodied
La morte dell’Eroe. Simboli di potere aristocratico dal Caucaso all’Egeo nell’Età del Bronzo
No full textThe phenomenon of the so-called ‘royal tombs’ of the Bronze Age runs over the whole geographical area that extends from the slopes of the Caucasus to the shores of the Aegean Sea. These extraordinary archaeological discoveries demonstrate how the traditional values of the ‘hero’s figure’, narrated for example in the Homeric poems, have very ancient roots, located in a well-defined geographical area. These heroes are not only legendary characters but also representatives of a ruling class that maintains its power through war and whose emblems of authority are the precious objects found inside the tombs that accompany them even after their death
Beasts and Wine. Zoomorphic Vessels and the Northern Corridor of the Near East
No full textThe recent discovery in Georgia of two Kura-Araxes zoomorphic vessels with possible analogues in Anatolia and in the Aegean opens up the intriguing possibility that the diffusion of these containers for the ritual consumption of alcoholic beverages followed a corridor crossing in EW direction the northern sector of the Near East
From the Caspian to the Aegean, from the Caucasus to the Carpathians. The Circulation of the "Long-Sword" in the Second Millennium BC.
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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
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
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