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Genealogías y devenires feministas en África
No full textFil: Cejas, Mónica Inés. Unidad Xochimilco. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. Departamento de Política y Cultura; México.Fil: Riley, Emily Jenan. Colegio de México. Centro de Estudios de Asia y África; México
Entrevista a Maïmouna Dembélé: con la cabeza en alto
Get PDFFil: Riley, Emily Jenan. Colegio de México. Centro de Estudios de Asia y África; México.Fil: Cejas, Mónica Inés. Unidad Xochimilco. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. Departamento de Política y Cultura; México
Ter\ue0nga and the art of hospitality : engendering the nation, politics, and religion in Dakar, Senegal
No full textSenegal, a Muslim majority and democratic country, has long coined itself as "le pays de la ter\ue0nga" (Land of Hospitality). This dissertation explores the central importance of ter\ue0nga\u2013 the Wolof word which encapsulates the generous and civic-minded qualities of individuals \u2013 to events such as weddings and baptisms, women\u2019s political process, as well as everyday calculated and improvisational social encounters. Ter\ue0nga is both the core symbol, for many, of Senegalese nationalism and collective identity, and the source of contentious and polarizing debates surrounding its qualities and meanings. The investigation of ter\ue0nga throughout this dissertation exposes the complexities of social and gender ideologies and practices in Senegal. In addition, this dissertation aspires to investigate the subjectivities, and conditions of Senegalese women as well as their contributions to the social, religious, and political realities of contemporary Senegal, and Dakar more specifically. This dissertation focuses on how ter\ue0nga is debated, talked about, and performed by several groups. First, it investigates the public discourses of ter\ue0nga as a gendered symbol of national culture and its central importance to the construction of female subjects in their navigation of courtship, marriage, and family relations. Second, an expos\ue9 of family ceremonies and the women who conduct them, demonstrates generational shifts in the interpretation and value given to the process of ter\ue0nga in a contemporary moment where daughters are redefining its meaning from that of their mother's generation. Third, female state politicians engaged with the parit\ue9 movement for gender equity in political positions utilize ter\ue0nga as a tool to create power and opportunity. Female politicians create charismatic personalities by contributing to the ceremonies of supporters and conducting public displays of gift-giving. Lastly, members of the Muslim Sufi group the Layene reframe ter\ue0nga as an ethical obligation to others and God, which they see as a stark contrast to mainstream interpretations. Among the Layene, unmarried young women pursue marital relationships and personal piety through engagement with ter\ue0nga by hosting and visiting potential in-laws and religious leaders. As part of the Layene annual religious pilgrimage, members of the teral gann group demonstrate public piety as hostesses performing ter\ue0nga.Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Anthropology, 2016Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-226
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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