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Yasmah-Addu between the episode and the structure: An experience of history writing
Get PDFFil: Rede, Marcelo. Universidade de Sao Paulo; Brasil
Héritage, dot et prestations matrimoniales en Babylonie ancienne
No full textRede Marcelo. Héritage, dot et prestations matrimoniales en Babylonie ancienne. In: Dialogues d'histoire ancienne, vol. 35, n°2, 2009. pp. 13-44
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
TERRA E PODER NA ANTIGA MESOPOTÂMIA: UMA ANTROPOLOGIA HISTÓRICA ENTRE OS "PRIMITIVOS" E OS "MODERNOS"
No full textWhat kind of relationship did exist betweem land control and the political power of complex organizations in Ancient Mesopotamia? Generally, assyriologists used to define power as being an effect of direct control over the productive process. Adopting anthropological approaches, the author thinks, instead, that the role of palaces and temples in allocating resources is of central importance to the study of certain Mesopotamian kinds ofpower, as the origin of the latter is not to be sought in the area of economic production but in that of wealth distribution. This paper also asserts the need to develop new instruments of analysis with wich to prove the articulations existing betweem politics, on the one hang and the control of production and appropriation of wealth (as well as the forms, conspicuous sometimes, of expending such wealth), on the other hand
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
The Achaemenid Empire in Herodotus: identity and politics in the histories
No full textEssa tese tem por objetivo analisar as percepções gregas do Império Persa Aquemênida e outros impérios orientais enquanto entidades políticas, com ênfase sobre o olhar remoto de Heródoto. Em primeiro lugar, o autor resume o estado da pesquisa acadêmica sobre as Histórias de Heródoto e sobre as atitudes gregas em relação à Pérsia, num esforço de esclarecer a complexidade das relações greco-persas, que, de acordo com a pesquisa mais recente, não eram apenas hostis, mas repletas de receptividade. A seguir, o autor examina as ideias persa e assíria de império, bem como suas organizações imperiais concretas. Analisa-se demoradamente a iconografia real persa e conceitos políticos tais quais bumi- e xaça-, concluindo-se que estes poderiam veicular uma ideia inovadora de império, embora profundamente enraizada em tradições mesopotâmicas anteriores. Descreve-se a maneira como as fontes clássicas nomearam o império ao longo do tempo, com atenção particular à formulação de autores mais antigos como Heródoto, Ésquilo e Tucídides. O autor se esforça para explicar em cada caso o uso de hgemonía, arch e até mesmo pólis para designar o Império Persa. Por fim, o autor examina a terminologia de Heródoto usada para designar o Império Aquemênida e como ela demonstra uma estratégia de alusões e ressonâncias com implicações críticas quanto à política expansionista de Atenas. Propõe-se que Atenas incorporou as ideias persas de império, enquanto, paradoxalmente, denunciava sua violência e tirania internacional. Essa postura contraditória teve seus impactos sobre historiadores como Heródoto e Tucídides e é uma chave interpretativa instrutiva para as Histórias.This thesis aims to analyze Greek perceptions of the Achaemenid Persian Empire and other Near Eastern empires taken as political entities, emphasizing the early look of Herodotus. The author first summarizes the state of scholarly research on Herodotus Histories and Greek attitudes towards Persia in an effort to clarify the complexity of Greco-Persian relations, which, according to the most recent research, were not only hostile, but also full of receptivity. The author examines next Assyrian and Persian ideas of empire and their concrete imperial organizations. One analyzes at length Persian royal iconography and political concepts such as bumi- and xaça-, concluding that these could convey an innovative idea of empire, albeit deeply rooted in older Mesopotamian traditions. One describes the way classical sources named the empire over time, with particular attention to the wording of early authors such as Herodotus, Aeschylus, and Thucydides. The author strives to explain in each case the use of hgemonía, arch, and even pólis to designate the Persian Empire. Finally, the author examines Herodotus terminology to name the Achaemenid Empire and how it conveys a strategy of allusions and resonances with critical overtones towards Athenian expansive policy. One proposes that Athens paradoxically incorporated Persian ideas of empire, while publicly denouncing Persian violence and international tyranny. This contradictory stance had its impacts over historians such as Herodotus and Thucydides and it is an instructive interpretative key to the Histories
Herodotus and the forms of government theory: the Persian constitutional debate
No full textO objetivo desta dissertação é investigar o fragmento III.80-82 das Histórias, no qual Heródoto narra um debate entre três nobres persas, ocorrido em 522 a.C.. O que estava em discussão era a melhor forma de governo a ser adotada pela Pérsia após a morte do usurpador Smérdis. No chamado debate persa, Otanes propôs a adoção de uma constituição democrática, Megabizo sugeriu a instituição de uma oligarquia, e Dario, por fim, defendeu a manutenção da monarquia a ideia que venceu o debate. Nossa proposta é analisar a construção de um pensamento político nas Histórias, com o suporte da filosofia política, de modo a demonstrar que o autor pode ser classificado como um pensador político não-sistemático. Além disso, esse estudo demonstra a possibilidade da leitura do documento indicar a existência de seis formas de governo, sendo três constituições boas, e suas três versões degeneradas.The objective of this study is investigate about the fragment III.80-82 of Herodotus Histories, in which the author describes a debate between three noble Persians, in 522 B.C.. They have been discussing the best form of government to be adopted in Persia after the death of Smérdis the usurper. In the Persian debate, Otanes proposed a democratic constitution, Megabyzus suggested an oligarchy, and after then Darius defended the maintenance of the monarchy the idea such win the debate. Our goal is to analyze the construction of a political thought in Histories, with the support of political philosophy, to show the author can be considered as a political thinking non-systematized. Besides, this work demonstrates a possibility to understand the document like a scheme of the six forms of government, with three good constitutions, and another three its bad versions
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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