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Interview of Jonathan Benthall
No full textInterview of Jonathan Benthall on his life and work, in particular as Director of the Royal Anthropological Institut
Anthropology, Anti-Racism and Schools in the 1970s: An interview with Jonathan Benthall
No full textThis interview with a former director of the Royal Anthropological Institute offers an insight into the very start of conversations about an Anthropology A-level in the 1970s.</jats:p
A REPLY TO JONATHAN BENTHALL
No full textJonathan Benthall's stimulating comment on my essay on civil society and tribal process
in Jordan has five specific criticisms: I pay no attention to gender; I underestimate the importance
of mass media; I neglect the fact that Jordan is an aid economy with the implied necessity of
finding formal organizations through which to funnel spending; I emphasize the importance of
kinship ties, although kinship puts a brake on the country's progress and on meritocracy;
and I emphasize the importance of tribal process when it is precisely that process that reinforces
reactionary trends. I shall briefly address these matters, then focus on the issues underlying our
differences. In that way, I hope to advance the discourse.</jats:p
The Islamic Charities Project (formerly Montreux Initiative)
No full textThis is a personal account of a mediation or conflict resolution project (2005–2013), funded by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (Political Division IV) in which the author took part as an adviser. The aim of this exercise in “track two diplomacy” was to help remove unjustified obstacles from Islamic charities. It did not succeed in surmounting all the challenges it faced, partly as a result of political turbulence in the post 9/11 years. In particular, not enough trust was generated between the US Treasury and the charities of the Gulf states to facilitate mediation. The chapter concludes, however, by forecasting that future efforts of a similar kind will be made to bring Islamic charities fully into the international aid system. Materially well-off Muslims have the resources to alleviate poverty and suffering, while the overseas aid budgets of the major Western nations are under pressure. Moreover, a “humanitarian vacuum” is created in complex zones of conflict such as Syria, when bona fide Islamic charities are absent for political reasons and the field is left open for extremist groups. The growth of research on Islamic charities will help give substance and credibility to future interventions.</p
Observación participante. El caso de Alison Spedding
Get PDFEn marzo de 1998 las autoridades bolivianas arrestaron bajo el cargo de tráfico de drogas a la antropóloga inglesa Alison L. Spedding, Ph. D. En agosto de 1999 fue condenada a 10 años de cárcel. Desde el Centro de Orientación Femenina de la Paz, ella escribió un artículo para la revista Anthropology Today, el cual se ha traducido íntigro, contando con el conocimiento de Jonathan Benthall, presidente de Royal Anthropological Institute. Lamentablemente Cinta de Moebio no pudo comunicarse con ella, aun cuando le envió una copia impresa de la traducción para su aprobación. Sin embargo, y tal como señala Jonathan Benthall, este texto y su análisis pretende ser un apoyo para ella, siendo esa la razón para publicarlo
Observación Participante
No full textEn Marzo de 1998 las autoridades bolivianas arrestaron bajo el cargo de tráfico de drogas a la antropóloga inglesa Alison L. Spedding, Ph. D. En Agosto de 1999 fue condenada a 10 años de cárcel. Desde el Centro de Orientación Femenina de La Paz, ella escribió un artículo para la revista Anthropology Today, el cual se ha traducido íntegro, contando con el conocimiento de Jonathan Benthall, presidente de Royal Anthropological Institute. Lamentablemente Cinta de Moebio no pudo comunicarse con ella, aun cuando le envió una copia impresa de la traducción para su aprobación. Sin embargo, y tal como señala Jonathan Benthall, este texto y su análisis pretenden ser un apoyo para ella, siendo esa la razón para publicarlo. La dirección de la Dra. Spedding es la siguiente: Cárcel de Mujeres, Centro de Orientación Femenina, Calle Francisco Miranda, Miraflores, La Paz, Bolivia
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
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