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Record Nr.

UNINA9910289346603321

Autore

Ridolfo Jim <1979->

Titolo

Digital Samaritans : rhetorical delivery and engagement in the digital humanities / / Jim Ridolfo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, MI : , : University of Michigan Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

9780472900077

0472900072

9780472052806

0472052802

9780472072804

0472072803

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 164 pages) : PDF, digital file(s)

Collana

Sweetland digital rhetoric collaborative book series

Disciplina

296.817072

Soggetti

Samaritans - Historiography

Learning and scholarship - Technological innovations

Library materials - Digitization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Digital Samaritans explores rhetorical delivery and cultural sovereignty in the digital humanities. The exigence for the book is rooted in a practical digital humanities project based on the digitization of manuscripts in diaspora for the Samaritan community, the smallest religious/ethnic group of 770 Samaritans split between Mount Gerizim in the Palestinian Authority and in Holon, Israel. Based on interviews with members of the Samaritan community and archival research, Digital Samaritans explores what some Samaritans want from their diaspora of manuscripts, and how their rhetorical goals and objectives relate to the contemporary existential and rhetorical situation of the Samaritans as a living, breathing people. How does the circulation of Samaritan manuscripts, especially in digital environments, relate to their rhetorical circumstances and future goals and objectives to



communicate their unique cultural history and religious identity to their neighbors and the world? Digital Samaritans takes up these questions and more as it presents a case for collaboration and engaged scholarship situated at the intersection of rhetorical studies and the digital humanities.