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Rock art research and knowledge-production in the context of globalisations: A comparative approach to the cases of Patagonia-Argentina and Eastern Canada
No full textIn this chapter, we discuss how the different globalisations (in plural) in Argentina and Canada have had (and still have) various impacts on the ways in which rock art knowledge was built in different moments and contexts of globalisation over time. In particular, we focus on: 1) the initial or pioneer views on deep-time rock art in Eastern Canada and Patagonia (those of voyagers, explorers, militaries, and missionaries); 2) the development of archaeologies of art in the strict academic sense of theterm (e.g. culture-history and stylistic approaches as well as processual approaches, following and creatively adapting international academic trends);and 3) a number of new theoretical approaches associated withpost-processualism, including landscape archaeology, ecological approaches,materiality, and, more recently, the ‘ontological turn’. These three periods in the history of Westernthought on deep-time rock art emerged in different contexts and under specific historical conditions, yet are characterised by theglobalisation of theoretical concepts from central areas of traditionala cademic theoretical production (i.e. Europe and USA), towards South Americaand Canada. In sum, we show how interpretations of deep-time Indigenous rockart in Eastern Canada and in Argentinean Patagonia were conceived underdifferent conceptual frameworks according to different contexts of globalisations over time.Fil: Fiore, Danae. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Tapper, Bryn. Memorial University Of Newfoundland; CanadáFil: Zawadzka, Dagmara. Université du Québec a Montreal; CanadáFil: Acevedo, Agustín. Universidad Tecnologica Nacional. Facultad Reg.san Rafael. Instituto de Evolucion, Ecologia Historica y Ambiente. - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Centro Cientifico Tecnologico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto de Evolucion, Ecologia Historica y Ambiente.; Argentin
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
Petroglyphs on the periphery: the landscapes of rock art in the Canadian Maritimes
No full textThis dissertation offers a regional overview of traditions of rock art created by ancestral Mi’kmaq, Wolastoqiyik, and Peskotomuhkatiyik in the Canadian Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Specifically, it examines the changing roles of rock art across the boundary of European Contact, identifying similarities and differences in content, style, and landscape placement between pre- and postcontact traditions (and including comparisons with mobile art). Evidence for precontact rock art is limited, restricted to a single Late Woodland site in southern New Brunswick, yet it marks the eastern limit of rock art traditions, often associated with ritual specialists, recorded among Algonquian-speaking peoples stretching across the Canadian Shield, and extending from the Great Lakes to eastern Maine. Most rock art was made between the 17th and early 20th centuries, and the majority of that, during the 18th and 19th centuries. Analysis of the content, style, distribution, and archaeological and historical contexts of 12 postcontact sites reveals not only continuity with precontact traditions, but, increasingly, a greater concern with recording the changing circumstances of Mi’kmaw, Wolastoqey and Peskotomuhkati individuals and communities as they adapted to the challenges imposed and opportunities afforded by culture contact during the colonial period. Significantly, the authorship of petroglyphs appears to have broadened, and although the practice was rooted in precontact pictographic traditions, it was just one facet of a wider ‘pictographic literacy’ expressed across various media. Reflecting a broader suite of concerns than found in precontact traditions, much postcontact rock art relates to the social, economic, political and religious lives of men and women as they sought to retain access to hunting, gathering, and fishing territories and resources, negotiate the introduction of Christianity, adopt new technologies, and diversify their economies. The geographic distribution of postcontact rock art also reflects the impact of European settler colonialism, and the marginalisation and dislocation of Indigenous communities from ancestral territories, and their subsequent removal to reservations or else places located at the margins of the Euro-settler world. In these peripheral places, petroglyphs were markers of continued Indigenous presence, of individual and collective experience and memory, and represent a form of passive resistance to the assimilation and acculturation policies of successive colonial and, later, provincial governments. Today, rock art plays a significant and dynamic role in the revitalisation of cultural memory and identity for contemporary Mi’kmaq, Wolastoqiyik, and Peskotomuhkatiyik
An archaeological analysis of the distribution of French fishing rooms on the Petit Nord, Newfoundland
No full textThe analysis of the spatial distribution of fishing rooms demonstrates that French fishing crews preferentially exploited certain parts of the Petit Nord during their prosecution of the historic cod fishery between 1500 and 1904. This research investigates the environmental and cultural factors that influenced where sites were selected and subsequently established. Fishing harbours were the hubs of wider networks, both physical and cognitive, of resource acquisition and navigation. A system of landmarks, daymarks and anchorages warded a network of sailing routes linking fishing rooms to cod grounds and resource areas. Seasonal occupation led to the intense exploitation of natural resources and necessitated the installation of a landscape-based infrastructure to negotiate the division of shore space and allocation of timber and fresh water. The concept of the maritime cultural landscape is used to link the terrestrial sites of the fishery with the region’s network of marine exploitation, land use and navigation. Effects of cultural processes in the past persist in the patterns and character of land use, both cultural and semi-natural, on land and at sea, that are observable in the region today.Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-247)
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
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