Map 2. The Samaritan diaspora of manuscripts. This map, based on three sources listed at the link, is not a complete or exhaustive description of Samaritan manuscripts abroad. Many manuscripts exist in the hands of private collectors. However, in addition to listing what’s known abroad based on the sources, the geocoded resource includes hyperlinks to known online finding aids at the time of publication. (To interact with the map, see https://batchgeo.com/map/9882ff095531b419fb087a080b497b0f.) The objective of this map is to convey a sense of scope about the diaspora and all resources are plotted in relationship to their distance from the Samaritan community in Nablus. As Presner, Shepard, and Kawano write in Hypercities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities, “Mapping is not a one-time thing, and maps are not stable objects that reference, reflect, or correspond to an external reality. Mapping is a verb and bespeaks to an on-going process of picturing, narrating, symbolizing, contesting, re-picturing, re-narrating, re-symbolizing, erasing, and re-inscribing a set of relations” (15). This map especially is not stable and is meant to represent only what’s known at a given time about the location of some Samaritan manuscripts. Over time, this specific mapping resource will change and evolve.
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Digital Samaritans: Rhetorical Delivery and Engagement in the Digital Humanities
Jim RidolfoDigital 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.
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Published: 2015
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
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