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Richard Dorson (interview)
No full textThis interview is included in the American Folklore Society Oral History Project held at the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. In this item, Richard M. Dorson is interviewed by Richard Reuss at the American Folklore Society annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee for the American Folklore Society Oral History Project. Biography/History note: Richard M. Dorson, folklorist, author, and educator, was born in New York City in 1916 and died in 1981. He earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University and taught at Harvard and Michigan State University before becoming professor of history and folklore at Indiana University where he founded its Folklore Institute in 1963 and became the first director and first chair of the Folklore Department at Indiana University in 1978. This collection consists of 1 sound tape reel (40 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 7 in. It was originally recorded on November 2, 1973 at the American Folklore Society annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee by Richard Reuss on a Sony audiocassette. This is a first-generation copy
Folder 9: Schwiderski, Richard Craig v. State of Texas 2, 1979-1984
No full textPhotocopy of a section of an article written by New York author Richard Reeves and titled 'Too Late to Kill the Messenger' and dated 1979, and argues for the role of media during violent situations
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
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
Deceiving the Senses:The Role of Vapours in Francis Bacon’s Natural Philosophy
Full text linkBacon’s universe is one in which matter is constantly striving to satisfy its appetites. Bodies have an antipathy to those other bodies that prevent them from satisfying their appetites, and flee from them. On the contrary, bodies are in a relation of sympathy and drawn toward those bodies that facilitate the satisfaction of their appetites. However, this relation is not always reciprocal, and this tension is the source of motion and visible phenomena in the sublunary world. As Bacon states in the first line of the preface to The History of Sympathy and Antipathy of Things, “Strife and friendship in nature are the spurs of motion and keys of works.” In a nonreciprocal relationship, bodies can satisfy their appetites only if they betray other spirits and make them believe they are “friends,” as we have seen in the example of infections. According to Bacon, in order to distinguish between “friends” and “enemies,” bodies possess a certain degree of knowledge; this deceptive knowledge is the basis on which we might call matter ingenious
Not retired!:Harmke Oosterhoff (1827-1913), female farm labourer in Nieuw-Scheemda
No full textUsing rare very detailed accounts of a farm for the period 1877-1905 indicating very precisely which labourers were hired, when and for how long, the life of a widowed female farm labourer Harmke Oosterhoff is sketched. She was only employed during the summer half year and it can be proven that Harmke still worked as a farm labourer for at least 61 days when she was already aged 76
Pierre Belon’s singularity:Pilgrim fact in Renaissance natural history
Full text linkFrom the 1540s through the 1570s, some French travellers started to write in a distinctive cosmographical genre of singularités, a term that brought together the exotic and unusual with the factuality of first-person observation. Especially influential examples include the learned apothecary Pierre Belon du Mans’ Les observations de plusieurs singularités et choses mémorables trouvées en Grèce, Asie, Judée, Égypte, Arabie et autres pays estranges (1553). In the context of this special issue, the author offers Belon as a “hard” case for pushing the boundaries of “pilgrimage science”. The straightforward claim is that he depended on genres describing voyages to the Levant, extending back to fifteenth-century accounts by best-selling authors such as Hans Tucher, Felix Fabri, Bernhard von Breydenbach, and Arnold von Harff. More significantly, framed as a case in the formation of natural history as a discipline, Belon’s account of the balsam grove of Matarea lets us see how the practices of layering of observation into a fact could not separate science from pilgrimage. To make this point, Oosterhoff begins with the scholarship on Matarea and fact-making, before taking up the manner in which Matarea’s balsam was related in pilgrimage narratives from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He pauses briefly on the Renaissance topical theory that underpinned natural history, and examines Belon’s account itself as an archetypic case, one embedded in later natural histories – in much the same way that pilgrimage accounts drew upon one another
Books piece on a reading by Richard Price, author of Samaritan, which will b
No full textBooks piece on a reading by Richard Price, author of Samaritan, which will be presented at Rines Auditorium, Portland Public Library, on March 5
I Remember column in which author Richard Randall writes of his family\u27s disco
No full textI Remember column in which author Richard Randall writes of his family\u27s discovery of abundant wild blueberries growing near Rocky Pond in Osborne Plantation
Not retired!:Harmke Oosterhoff (1827-1913), female farm labourer in Nieuw-Scheemda
No full textUsing rare very detailed accounts of a farm for the period 1877-1905 indicating very precisely which labourers were hired, when and for how long, the life of a widowed female farm labourer Harmke Oosterhoff is sketched. She was only employed during the summer half year and it can be proven that Harmke still worked as a farm labourer for at least 61 days when she was already aged 76
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