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Charming Beauties and Frightful Beasts. Non-Human Animals in South Asian Myth, Ritual and Folklore
No full textThe Lord of Kabul: On Wandering Masters, Creative Language and Absent Truth in Mīrzā Bīdil’s Chahār ʿunṣur
No full textThe Chahār ʿunṣur “Four Elements”, completed in 1704, is the philosophical autobiography of the most important Indo-Persian poet and thinker of the Mughal times, Mīrzā ʿAbd al-Qādir Bīdil (ʿAẓīmābād 1644-Delhi 1720). More than the teleological narration of “a life”, the text is a, collection of memoirs and first-hand accounts organically interwoven with wide-ranging poetical and philosophical reflections, not following a strict chronological order and using an intensively metaphorical prosimetrum as a meaningful tool for expressing a complex and original vision of the world and the writing subject. Wandering masters and dervishes of various kinds play a fundamental role of modelization in the text. Engaging with both classical and recent views on Bīdil, in this paper I will show how, in the Chahār ʿunṣur, the author descriptions of his meetings with some wandering masters in Awrangzeb’s Hindustan are essential to make sense of the poet’s theory of language and imagination, which is methodically developed in the text. This articla is divided in two parts: a first, more descriptive, where a few significant encounters between Bīdil’s and his masters are presented and briefly discussed; and a second, more theoretical, where his theory of language (in the Chahār ʿunṣur is reviewed, and put in connection with the ascetic models
The silent killer. The donkey as personification of illness in Northern Indian medical folklore
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Roots of Wisdom, Branches of Devotion. Plant Life in South Asian Traditions
Full text linkThis book collects a series of contributions by academics from around the world, dedicated to investigating different aspects of plant life in the religious traditions of Southern Asia
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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