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'Now we live together' : village formation amongst the Ngöbe and how "Majority rule is still an alien concept to most Guaymi"
No full textMy thesis is an exploration into the social dynamics of village formation amongst the Ngobe, a process which begun in the 1970's. This represents a dramatic change from their 400 year old settlement pattern, whereby kin groups as the ultimate locus of power within the society, lived in autonomous hamlets dispersed across , The rugged tropical terrain. Focusing on one particular community called Bisira I show how its locals, as residents in a concentrated community, while retaining their kin group membership, establish relationships of friendship amongst themselves based on trust, generosity, fecundity and respect and transgress kinship boundaries. I argue that the Ngobe have been forming communities whose internal 'configuration' reflects and replicates their stateless society, without thus becoming loci where power has the potential to accumulate in the hands of a few. The ethnography presented in this thesis explores a number of interrelated issues that can help us understand social change in Ngobe society. In the thesis I investigate (a) how the Ngobe in recent years have successfully organized to fend off the state in its attempts to develop open-pit mining and hydro-electric damming in their land. I address how the Ngobe leaders negotiate amongst themselves and between the state arguing that the fabric of their stateless society, while under severe threat by the state, still remains acephalous, multi-centered and non-hierarchical; (b) A successful Malaria Project which was implemented by PAHO in 2006 as prime example of the 'generative culture' of the Ngobe on the community level since through collective and voluntary work Bisira went from having one of the highest cases of Malaria in the country to none within two years after its implementation; (c) How informal ritualistic boxing Jamete solidifies relationships and forms brothers out of others. I also address (d) the importance of working at the plantations (as an experience of discrimination) had in enhancing solidarity, and the influence that the Mama Chi millenarian, reformist, nativistic movement -which appeared in the 1960's-had in bringing the women (within one generation) to have the same public rights as the men, while concurrently establishing the idea of a Pan-Nqobe-sister-brotherhood: and (e) the effects of schooling, party politics, and Christianity on the local culture and how aspects of modernity are consumed, rejected, desired or ignored by the locals. Several narratives are presented whereby the Ngobe voice, formally or informally, their views from family affairs to community formation. These narratives are in turn complemented by an anthropological analysis of the context at hand, and interpretations of particular events which make that context meaningful. Concurrently the thesis highlights the 'mundane' and subtle aspects of daily living: body postures, gestures, breathing, reflecting, tone of voice, the tone of silence, the unwritten laws about laws, the insignificant, or as Malinowski puts it, 'the manner of taking food and preparing it: the tone of conversational and social life around the village fires."EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo
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
Semi-Living Objects
No full textA workshop organized for the 3rd European Culture and Technology Lab conference
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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