El camino de Damasco pasa por la Amazonía. Crónica de una conversión anunciada
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Abstract
La novela de Mario Vargas Llosa El hablador (1987) es una parodia del discurso y la práctica antropológicos que se efectúa a través del tradicional procedimiento retórico de llevar hasta sus últimas consecuencias, y así reducir al absurdo, lo que Vargas Lloga denomina “conservacionismo” o “ecologismo cultural” de los indigenistas. El exemplum de que se vale Vargas Llosa para deslegitimar a todos aquellos que se atrevan a cuestionar la asimilación pura y simple de los pueblos indígenas a la cultura dominante consiste en poner en escena a un converso, a un santo, a un iluminado: es decir, a un personaje tan “emocional”, “irracionalmente” obcecado por la desterritorialización a que se ven sometidos los machiguengas que, en lugar de abogar por su “conversión” a la “modernidad” o, al menos, de llegar a la “razonable” conclusión de que ésta es inevitable, termina él mismo “convirtiéndose” –en el sentido literal, místico del término– a su mundo “primitivo”. La reducción al absurdo operada en El hablador hace que la actitud del personaje epónimo, su quijotesco comportamiento, aparezca tan radical que incluso el lector que sienta simpatía hacia este personaje estará prácticamente obligado a reconocer el carácter ilusorio de su empeño. Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel El hablador (1987) is a parody of anthropological discourse and practice. This parody is carried out through the traditional rhetorical tactic of carrying to its limits, and thereby reducing to absurdity, what Vargas Llosa calls indigenous “conservationism” or “cultural environmentalism.” In order to discredit those who dare question the pure and simple assimilation of indigenous peoples to the dominant culture, Vargas Llosa uses as exemplum the presentation of a converso, a Saint and a visionary: that is, a character so “emotional”, so “irrationally” blinded by the deterritorialisation the Machiguengas are faced with that, instead of advocating their “conversion” to “modernity” or, at least, coming to the “reasonable” conclusion that this conversion is inevitable, he himself ends up “converting” –in the literal, mystical sense of the word– to their “primitive” world. This reduction to absurdity is such that the attitude and quixotic behaviour of the eponymous character seems so radical that even the reader who feels sympathy towards him will be virtually forced to recognise the illusory character of his determination.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".