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Excellent judgement: bark painting in National Museums Scotland
No full textMuseums across Great Britain and Ireland hold Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (collectively referred to as ‘Indigenous’) cultural heritage of exceptional value which is largely unknown, rarely seen and poorly understood.
Gifted, sold, exchanged and bartered by Indigenous people, and accepted, bought, collected and taken by travellers, colonists, explorers, missionaries, officials and others, these rare objects date from Captain Cook in 1770 to the present day. Numbering over 35,000 items, they represent all regions of Australia’s vast landmass, from deserts, islands and coasts to tropical rainforests.
This book uses nearly 160 artefacts, selected from over 30 public museums, both large metropolitan and small regional, to present a multi-stranded narrative that opens up vistas on Britain’s Australian history as much as Australia’s British history.
More than twenty Indigenous, Australian and international experts weave together deeply-contextualised accounts of object-types; of makers, communities and regions; and of collectors, networks and institutions, while also exploring the meanings and importance of this material in Australia, Britain and Ireland and the world today.
Distanced from their places of origin and dispersed throughout Britain and Ireland, these objects are gathered together for the first time. Out of museum stores and into this book, they are evidence of the complex and often difficult relationships between Indigenous Australians and British people and institutions, as well as being powerful conduits for telling that history anew and in ways that seek to challenge and rework its legacies
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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Rephotography as a value creation technology in the nineteenth century: collecting, reproducing and exchanging
Full text linkThis chapter explores the creation of scientific value in nineteenth-century studio portraiture of Aboriginal peoples within European academic networks. In particular, the chapter explores the role of the Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte and its major photographic dissemination project, the Anthropologisch-ethnologisches Album in Photographien, published in parts by the Dammann studio of Hamburg between 1872 and 1876, its reception at the time, and some of the anxieties surrounding the reliability of source materials for comparative analysis. The chapter examines how the collecting, copying, sale, exchange and distribution of early photographs from Australia within European academia and museums can help us understand the important visual basis for the way value was attributed (or negated) in relation to Aboriginal culture from the 1860s onwards. The sources for one section of the Dammann album, that relating to Australia, are examined in detail, revealing a hitherto unknown major source for the Dammann project in Julius Ferdinand Berini, an expatriate who returned to Germany in 1872 with a collection of studio portraits of Aboriginal people. The unreliability of much of Berini’s documentation for his source material is revealed, as are contemporary published accounts questioning his use of visual evidence to support his own travel claims. These historical problems notwithstanding, the chapter argues that the replication of Berini’s collection as part of the Dammann project has led to their enduring value for re-engagement by historians and Indigenous people alike
Museums, societies and the creation of value
No full textMuseums, Societies and the Creation of Value focuses on the ways in which museums and the use of their collections have contributed to, and continue to be engaged with, value creation processes. Including chapters from many of the leading figures in museum anthropology, as well as from outstanding early-career researchers, this volume presents a diverse range of international case studies that bridge the gap between theory and practice. It demonstrates that ethnographic collections and the museums that hold and curate them have played a central role in the value creation processes that have changed attitudes to cultural difference. The essays engage richly with many of the important issues of contemporary museum discourse and practice. They show how collections exist at the ever-changing point of articulation between the source communities and the people and cultures of the museum and challenge presentist critiques of museums that position them as locked into the time that they emerged. Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value provides examples of the productive outcomes of collaborative work and relationships, showing how they can be mutually beneficial. The book will be of great interest to researchers and students engaged in the study of museums and heritage, anthropology, culture, Indigenous peoples, postcolonialism, history and sociology. It will also be of interest to museum professionals. -- Provided by publisher.Introduction -- Section I Making and Remaking of Collections -- Chapter 1 Inalienable patrimony and museums: re-valuing the MacGregor collection -- Chapter 2 The emergence of value in the process of the Sami repatriation: Baastede -- Chapter 3 Colonial collections in British military museums: of objects, materiality and sentiment -- Chapter 4 Rephotography as a value creation technology in the nineteenth century: collecting, reproducing and exchanging -- Section II Creating Value - Inside and Outside the Museum -- Chapter 5 Aboriginal secret-sacred objects, their values and future prospects -- Chapter 6 Systems of value in Vanuatu: reflections on the Ambae textile complex -- Chapter 7 Displaying, creating and mobilizing value in a museum exhibition: Pacific Currents in Cambridge -- Chapter 8 The revaluation of historical collections by source communities: the string figures of Yirrkala -- Section III Engagement and Return -- Chapter 9 'Go throw it in the river', shifting values and the productive confusions of collaboration with museum collections -- Chapter 10 Digital return of an ethnographic museum collection and value creation by an originating community in Baguia, Timor-Leste -- Chapter 11 Digital/object/beings and 3D replication in the intercultural museum context: have you socialized your clones?; Section IV Indigenous Agency -- Chapter 12 Value creation and museums from an Indigenous perspective -- Chapter 13 Yolnu pathways to value creation in museum and archival collections: the work and journey of Joseph Gumbula -- Chapter 14 Creating value through cultural capital: 'Witira Kanyila - "work as one to make it strong
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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