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L. Badre, E. Capet, B. Vitale, Tell Kazel au Bronze Récent (2018)
No full textMuti Giulia. L. Badre, E. Capet, B. Vitale, Tell Kazel au Bronze Récent (2018). In: Topoi, volume 22/2, 2018. pp. 685-688
To weave or not to weave? Textile production and the development of a technological habitus in Cypriote Prehistory
No full textTextile archaeology represents a rather elusive field of investigation, just as the products of textile activities archaeologically are. The scarcity of information on Cypriot Neolithic and Chalcolithic adds to this inevitable elusiveness. These two aspects may have led scholars to underestimate the importance of the few available pre-BA documents, which, however, suggest an initial textile production as early as the Neolithic. Additionally, besides shedding some light on a regional aspect of the history of technology, these documents may provide a valuable contribution to the wider debate on the character and development of the technological habitus of prehistoric communities in an insular context. The goal of this study is to try to delineate the evidence related to textile production in pre-BA contexts. Towards this end, it is necessary to examine different textile markers relevant to primary (textile tools and products) and secondary (raw materials and iconography) evidence. © 2018, Gangemi Editore. All rights reserved
By choice and by nature? Investigating the environment of textile production in Bronze Age Kouris Valley (Cyprus)
No full textTextile manufacture played an important role in the socio-economic dynamics and the development of productive
strategies in Bronze Age Kouris valley (Limassol district, Cyprus). This paper aims to define the relationship
between textile activities with and within their environment. On the one hand, the focus on textile production
will be the fil rouge used to build a long-term narrative of Bronze Age sites in the valley (Sotira Kaminoudhia
[EC], Erimi Laonin tou Porakou [MC], Episkopi Phaneromeni [MCIII-LCIA] and Alassa Paliotaverna and
Pano Mandilaris [LC]). On the other, the concept of “environment” will be extremely beneficial to investigate
not only the relationship between the Kouris valley communities and their landscape and natural resources, but
also the complex array of social dynamics between people, nature, and objects. Textile production and the landscape
will be read not as two correlated entities but interwoven realities. Textile production is thus best defined
when the “textile environment” is investigated, and this is a natural as much as social entity
Shades of red: use and contexts of earth based and plant-based dyes and pigments at middle bronze age Erimi
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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
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