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From Big House To Longhouse: Continuity And Change Of The Delaware Skin Dance
Full text linkThis dissertation addresses continuity and change of the Delaware Skin Dance, a dance accompanied by a number of short songs that the Haudenosaunee adopted from the Delaware. Once used ceremonially, today the dance is integrated into Haudenosaunee social dance practice; although the songs comprise a large percentage of living Delaware music, they are no longer known to Delaware people, making them of interest to those wishing to revitalize them in their respective communities. Through analysis of recordings, participant observation, and interviews with Haudenosaunee singers, dancers, and elders, the author explores the oral history, perpetuation, and significance of the Delaware Skin Dance and highlights the complex relationship between the Haudenosaunee, the Delaware, and their music. The author identifies the most significant change in the dance as its shift in function. Based on Iroquois oral history gathered through interviews, she argues that the Delaware Skin Dance was once used for ceremonial purposes. Through comparison with Delaware Big House songs, she suggests the dance likely possesses connections to the Delaware Big House ceremony. She finds that Iroquois satellite communities where Delaware people found refuge allowed a degree of freedom favorable to continued practice of their musical traditions that eventually allowed them to pass the songs to the Haudenosaunee. The author explains that the soundscape in contemporary Longhouses has much in common with the ancient sonic environment of the Delaware Big House, although performance spaces outside the Longhouse have changed drastically. Through analysis of Delaware Skin Dance recordings, the author demonstrates diversity in song lyrics, melodic embellishments, and repertoire held by Iroquois singers. She discusses Delaware people's interest in the Delaware Skin Dance and the commencement of efforts to relearn the songs. The author outlines a project of revivalistic musical revitalization that could lead toward renewal of Delaware music and identity, strengthening of intercommunity relations, and advancement of ethnogenesis and decolonization
Cosmopolitan Voices: Women’s Native American Powwow Drum Groups in Northern Appalachia
No full textThis paper addresses the significance of women’s Native American powwow drum groups in Northern Appalachia, specifically their positive influence on Native women’s identity. The majority of Native American powwow drum groups are comprised of male singers. Sometimes these groups have women “backup singers” who stand behind the men but who do not play the drum. While women’s drum groups are rare in Indian country, a surprisingly large number of such groups are found in Northern Appalachia. In fact, at some powwows in this region, the number of women’s groups matches or even exceeds the number of men’s groups. What’s more, although powwows were not held regularly in Northern Appalachia until the late 1980s, which was later than many areas in the United States, women’s drum groups in this area started forming in the early 1990s, making them some of the earliest women’s groups on the East Coast. Through ethnographic interviews and my auto-ethnographic experiences as a powwow dancer since childhood, I build on work by ethnomusicologists such as Hoefnagels and Diamond that addresses Native American women’s musical performance. In this paper, I discuss the obstacles that women singers overcame in order to perform at powwows, the shift in opinion regarding women singers over time, and the current perception of women’s drums from data collected through interviews with powwow singers and dancers. I argue that women’s drum groups have played a significant role in energizing Native women’s identity in Northern Appalachia. Understanding this aspect of powwows is an important part of our understanding Native American modernity more broadly; likewise, it is significant in our comprehension of Appalachia as a place of dynamic, diverse traditions
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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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