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The city of knowledge: History and culture in contemporary Shiraz.
No full textThis dissertation examines the production and reception of historical knowledge in contemporary Shiraz, Iran. I consider historical knowledge as the set of diverse practices and discourses through which the past is interpreted---from book writing and publishing to monument restorations and conferences as well as conversations and gestures. I analyze this selective process of interpretation in several contexts. I describe the activities of state, municipal and private institutions which administer culture in Shiraz today and show how they construct interpretations of the pre-Islamic and poetic past in relation to the changing discursive space instituted with the revolution of 1979. I discuss conversations between a retired high school teacher and me on the cultural history of Shiraz, focusing on the allusions and elusions through which this history was being interpreted. I analyze two local histories of Shiraz from the 1950s and their reception in the present highlighting how the rhetorical possibilities of different genres frame narratives differently and how available historiography perceived as not aptly representing the past is often substituted by poetry which is the dominant discourse of the city. In the conclusions I discuss practices around historical knowledge in Shiraz as working through several interpretative modalities which structure the interpretability of the past in contemporary Shiraz as a contested field of different positions as well as a site for a relentless process of mediation which smoothes the edges in order to put the past accordance with the entailments of the present. The last pages of the dissertation are devoted to a discussion of this latter interpretative modality through a genealogy of the category of dissimulation. The strategic deferral of truth opens spaces for alternative, albeit implicit, interpretations of history while also reinforcing dominant historicism. The work of dissimulation is, however, often halted by fragments of the past, like the interpretations of the Achaemenid empire or the events around 1953 which leap forward disrupting mediating practices. Seen from this perspective, historiography today in Iran is a crucial field for understanding the tensions and accommodations that traverse the country more than twenty years after the revolution.PhDCultural anthropologyMiddle Eastern historySocial SciencesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/123569/2/3001006.pd
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Public history and the production of the "culture of Shiraz"
Get PDFThe project examines the production of historical knowledge in contemporary Shiraz, focusing on
several "cultural activities" such as restorations, publications and events. Discussing the
strategies of different state and municipal institutions as well as the particular expressive
modalities through which the past is constructed and inscribed on urban space, I underlie the
conflicted character of these dynamics and argue that the production of public history in Iran is
best understood as a series of interventions instituting a system of dispersion rather than the
reworking of a stable national imagination
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
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