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Halten die Antworten, was die Fragen versprechen? Handel und Kulturkontakt – eine Synthese als Reflexion im Medium seiner Diskussion
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People on the Move: Framework, Means, and Impact of Mobility Across the Eastern Mediterranean Region in the 8th to 6th Century BCE
No full textThe volume at hand publishes the proceedings of the workshop “People on the Move: Framework, Means, and Impact of Mobility across the East Mediterranean Region in the 8th to 6th Century BC”, which took place at CH-Castelen in August 2015. Aim of the workshop was to tackle the questions of how the increased cross-regional mobility of people and commodities in the wake of the Kushite, Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, and early Achaemenid expansions to the eastern Mediterranean affected a) the actual people who were leaving their homeland; b) the communities left behind; and c) the communities receiving the travelers on a visit or for long-term residence. Special attention was drawn to the following issues: PREPARATION AND DEPARTURE: What routes and means of transport were preferable to others and why? What preparations are necessary? Who or what factors decided whether to leave or to stay? How were necessary stopovers organized? How did communities cope with the loss of specialists or of comparatively large percentages of their inhabitants? ON THE WAY: What motivations for traveling can be discerned? What routes were used? What could happen during the trip? What kind of reception would one expect? ARRIVAL AND RECEPTION: How were travelers housed? How did this affect the receiving private or institutional households? How did local “foreign” communities deal with the enhancement of their numbers? How did the decision to integrate oneself into their community or to keep one’s distance affect these “foreign” communities, the local society as a whole, and the policy toward “foreigners”? Was long-term emigration the aim or the result of traveling? The volume includes the following contributions: Wasmuth, Melanie: Introduction. The Eastern Mediterranean Area Of Connectivity in the 8th–6th Century BCE—Setting an Agenda Breier, Idan: “He Will Raise an Ensign to a Nation Afar, Whistle to One at the End of the Earth”: The Assyrian and Babylonian Armies as Described in Prophetic Texts and Mesopotamian Inscriptions Kahn, Dan'el: Egypt and Assyria in Isaiah 11:11–16 Köpp-Junk, Heidi: Pharaonic Prelude—Being on the Move in Ancient Egypt from Predynastic Times to the End of the New Kingdom Schütze, Alexander: The Standard of Living of the Judean Military Colony at Elephantine in Persian Period Egypt Staubli, Thomas: Cultural and Religious Impacts of Long-Term Cross-Cultural Migration Between Egypt and the Levant Wasmuth, Melanie: Cross-Regional Mobility in ca. 700 BCE: The Case of Ass. 8642a/IstM A 1924 The Editors and Authors: Synthesis: Summaries and Responses
Introduction: Udjahorresnet and his world : A key figure of cross-regional relations reconsidered (in collaboration with Alex Aissaoui, Ladislav Bareš, Reinhold Bichler, Henry Colburn, Francis Joannès, Ivan Ladynin, Francesco Lopez, Nenad Marković, Allison McCoskey, Cristina Ruggero, Alexander Schütze, Květa Smoláriková, and Marissa Stevens)
Full text linkThe contribution at hand provides a synthetic response to the special issue on “Udjahorresnet and his World,” published as Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 26. After introducing the aims and motivation behind the volume, I present a concise summary of the key questions, investigation lines and major results of the volume’s contributions. These fall into four major thematic blocks. Three papers are primarily concerned with a re-evaluation of the material culture commemorating Udjahorresnet, three take up the question of his professional and social environment, four focus on Udjahorresnet as a cross-regional agent, while the last three draw on Udjahorresnet and the textual evidence on his naophorous statue in the Musei Vaticani as a historiographical mediator. The final section showcases synthetically the key advances in the study of Udjahorresnet and his world jointly achieved by the author collective.Non peer reviewe
Handel als Medium von Kulturkontakt : Akten des Interdisziplinären altertumswissenschaftlichen Kolloquiums (Basel, 30.–31. Oktober 2009)
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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
The So-Called Archive of the Egyptians in Assur (N31) : Archaeological Comments on the N 31A+D Complex
Full text linkThe contribution discusses a detail of the documentation history of the excavations undertaken by the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft at Assur in 1908. Its concern is the archaeological documentation of the so-called archive(s) of the Egyptians, which – in the view of the author – needs urgent correcting as it has created an interpretational dynamic that is based on problematic premises. The enormous merits of Pedersén’s fundamental 1985/86 study on the archives and libraries from Assur notwithstanding, the suggested mixing of tablets from what he introduced as ‘archive’ N31A and N31D is not born out by the excavation documentation. I showcase in my contribution the evidence for explicit observation of Middle and Late Assyrian strata including tablet finds from either stratum in both excavation areas (eA7II and eE6V) as well as indications for area-internal mixing of the Middle and Late Assyrian tablets. This is a much more likely explanation for the presence of Middle and Late Assyrian tablets in the find complexes Ass. 13319 (N31A; eA7II) and Ass. 13058 (N31D/M7; eE6V) than a cross-area mix in the excavation house. The correction has major implications also on a socio-cultural level, as it shows that the documentation of the financial, administrative and juridical activities of the Egyptians living in Assur was spread at least over four different living quarters across the town.Peer reviewe
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
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