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Full text linkAmong one of the older sub-fields in Buddhist Studies, the study of Theravāda Buddhism is undergoing a revival by contemporary scholars who are revising long-held conventional views of the tradition while undertaking new approaches and engaging new subject matter. The term Theravāda has been refined, and research has expanded beyond the analysis of canonical texts to examine contemporary cultural forms, social movements linked with meditation practices, material culture, and vernacular language texts. The Routledge Handbook of Theravāda Buddhism illustrates the growth and new directions of scholarship in the study of Theravāda Buddhism and is structured in four parts: Ideas/Ideals, Practices/Persons, Texts/Teachings, Images/Imaginations. Owing largely to the continued vitality of Theravāda Buddhist communities in countries like Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos, as well as in diaspora communities across the globe, traditions associated with what is commonly (and fairly recently) called Theravāda attract considerable attention from scholars and practitioners around the world. An in-depth guide to the distinctive features of Theravāda, the Handbook will be an invaluable resource to provide structure and guidance for scholars and students of Asian Religion, Buddhism and in particular Theravāda Buddhism
Transactions in Teaching Tembang Sunda Cianjuran and Jaipongan in West Java
No full textThis thesis examines the transmission of Sundanese tembang Sunda Cianjuran song and jaipongan dance in Bandung, West Java. The author investigates exchanges of divergent forms of knowledge and power between teachers and students. As well as teaching performance skills, traditional performing arts teachers may impart blessings, philosophies, ‘spirit’ energies, and magical or sacred knowledge. The thesis also discusses changes in Sundanese performing arts training, comparing home-based traditional transmission with institutional formal pedagogy. This thesis aims 1) to chart micro-level power transactions between traditional teachers and their apprentices; 2) to investigate the transmission of Sundanese élmu knowledge as philosophy or spirit energy; 3) to consider the role of the Sundanese performing arts guru as provider of career orientation and philosophical life guidance; 4) to determine how local scholars represent tembang Sunda Cianjuran and jaipongan in times of growing religious piety; 5) to assess congruences and divergences between traditional and institutional teaching; 6) to examine how teachers negotiate contradictions between tradition, modernity, morality, piety, and gender in Sundanese female dance. The author explores local attitudes to knowledge and how these converge with political and spiritual power to enhance the guru’s authority. The thesis evaluates interpersonal transactions between guru and murid in traditional song apprenticeship, emphasising exchanges where expert women performers instruct female novices. The notion of intergenerational chains of transmission is investigated. This is connected to the guru’s mission to find a successor to perpetuate exclusive knowledge. This thesis makes a detailed analysis of methods used for teaching complex vocal ornamentations. Mimicry is examined along with the ways traditional guru employ transcription, terminology, and gesture. In educational institutions the author scrutinises the systematisation of tembang Sunda Cianjuran and jaipongan with new teaching methods. The research investigates controversies around ronggeng-style performance and how prominent jaipongan teachers both defend and remodel Sundanese female dance in response to increasing religious morality in today’s Post-Reform Era
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
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