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The Black kingdom of the Nile Nathan I. Huggins lectures./ Charles Bonnet, with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.For the past fifty years, Charles Bonnet has been excavating sites in present-day Sudan and Egypt that point to the existence of a sophisticated ancient black African civilization thriving alongside the Egyptians. In The Black Kingdom of the Nile, he gathers the results of these excavations to reveal the distinctively indigenous culture of the black Nubian city of Kerma, the capital of the Kingdom of Kush. This powerful and complex political state organized trade to the Mediterranean basin and built up a military strong enough to resist Egyptian forces. Further explorations at Dukki Gel, north of Kerma, reveal a major Nubian fortified city of the mid-second millennium BCE featuring complex round and oval structures. Bonnet also found evidence of the revival of another powerful black Nubian society, seven centuries after Egypt conquered Kush around 1500 BCE, when he unearthed seven life-size granite statues of black Pharaohs (ca. 744-656 BCE). Bonnet's discoveries have shaken our understanding of the origins and sophistication of early civilization in the heart of black Africa. Until Bonnet began his work, no one knew the extent and power of the Nubian state or the existence of the black pharaohs who presided successfully over their lands. The political, military, and commercial achievements revealed in these Nubian sites challenge our long-held belief that the Egyptians were far more advanced than their southern neighbors and that black kingdoms were effectively vassal states. Charles Bonnet's discovery of this lost black kingdom forces us to rewrite the early history of the African continent.--Part 1. Kerma, capital of Nubia: History of the expedition -- The fortress at the beginning of early Kerma -- The early Kerma City -- The middle Kerma City -- The classic Kerma City -- The port area and temple -- A royal tomb -- Part 2. Dukki Gel, an African city, and the mnnw of Thutmose I: The site of Dukki Gel -- The ceremonial city of Dukki Gel -- A later intervention in Palace A -- The Egyptian conquest of Nubia -- The mnnw of Thutmose I -- Fortifications -- Egyptian temples and native cult installations*** -- Egyptian palaces -- The resumption of power by the king of Kerma and his allies -- Nubian and African remains after Thutmose I -- Fortifications -- Cult buildings -- Part 3. Pnubs during the New Kingdom, Napatan, and Meroitic periods -- Restoration of the mnnw by Thutmose II and Hatshepsut -- Northern fortifications -- Northwest gate and foregate -- Southern fortifications -- Egyptian temples and native places of worship -- The palace of Hatshepsut -- The second mnnw -- Occupation of the territory by Thutmose III -- Fortifications -- Egyptian temples and native places of worship -- A ceremonial palace -- The ancient city of Pnubs, pacified -- Remains of Thutmose IV at Pnubs -- The Amarna reform -- The main temple dedicated to Aten -- The Ramesside occupation -- The Kushite kingship -- The Napatan kingdom -- Dukki Gel in the Meroitic period -- A reconstructed temple -- The central temple -- Two palaces.1 online resource (xi, 209 pages)
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
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
sj-pdf-1-mrx-10.1177_01979183231187623 - Supplemental material for Sexuality, Migration, and LGB Policy: A Portrait of Immigrants in Same-Sex Couples in the United States
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-mrx-10.1177_01979183231187623 for Sexuality, Migration, and LGB Policy: A Portrait of Immigrants in Same-Sex Couples in the United States by Nathan I. Hoffmann and Kristopher Velasco in International Migration Review</p
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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