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Em torno da África: a diáspora de André Rebouças
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REBOUÇAS, André. Cartas da África: registro de correspondência, 1891-1893, organização Hebe Mattos, São Paulo: Chão Editora, 2022. 464 p.Resenha de:
REBOUÇAS, André. Cartas da África: registro de correspondência, 1891-1893, organização Hebe Mattos, São Paulo: Chão Editora, 2022. 464 p
‘Pretos’ and ‘Pardos’ between the Cross and the Sword: Racial Categories in Seventeenth Century Brazil
No full textMixing between Europeans and Africans in the Portuguese empire produced hierarchical categories for racial gradations during the seventeenth century. During this period the categories ‘mulato’ and ‘pardo’ were included in the regulations for Purity of Blood (Estatutos de Pureza de Sangue), which determined who could have access to the same honours and privileges that the old Christian Portuguese received. From the seventeenth century onwards, those regulations stipulated that ‘no one of the race of Jew, Moor or Mulato’ (Raça alguma de Judeu, Mouro ou Mulato) were eligible to receive certain honours and privileges from the crown. This paper discusses the meanings of ‘race’ on the basis of two historical case studies. The twin processes of miscegenation, in the biological sense, and cultural intermixing have engendered intermediate strata that have long stimulated the imagination of historians. Instead of emphasizing the idea of new strata of mixed blood, the two cases presented here suggest a more central role for the early demographic impact of access to manumission in colonial society to explain the emergence of these intermediate categories in Portuguese America. Resumen: ‘Pretos’ y ‘Pardos’ Entre la Cruz y la Espada: Categorías Raciales en el Brasil del Siglo DiecisieteDurante el siglo diecisiete, las mezclas entre europeos y africanos en el imperio portugués produjeron categorías jerárquicas de gradaciones raciales. Durante este período las categorías de ‘mulato’ y ‘pardo’ fueron incluidas en los estatutos para la Pureza de la Sangre (Estatutos de Pureza de Sangue), que determinaban quiénes tenían acceso a los mismos honores y privilegios de que gozaban los viejos cristianos portugueses. Desde el siglo diecisiete en adelante, esos estatutos estipulaban que “nadie de la raza judía, moro o mulato” (Raça alguma de Judeu, Mouro ou Mulato) podí- an recibir ciertos honores y privilegios de la Corona. En este artículo discutimos el significado del concepto de ‘raza’ sobre la base de dos estudios de caso historiográficos. Los procesos gemelos de mezcla racial, en el sentido biológico, y de mestizaje cultural engendraron estratos intermedios que han estimulado la imaginación de los historiadores durante largo tiempo. En lugar de enfatizar la idea de los nuevos estratos de sangre mixta, los dos casos presentados aquí sugieren, a la hora de explicar la emergencia de estas categorías intermedias en la América lusitana, un papel más central para el primer impacto demográfico del acceso a la manumisión en la sociedad colonial
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
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