The trickster shift: humour and irony in contemporary native art
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This richly illustrated book highlights the humour and irony in the work of contemporary Native artists from Canada. Ryan’s introduction outlines the genesis of his research on the Trickster figure in traditional First Nations culture. The non-linear structure of the text is conceived as “trickster discourse,” and reflects the intertextual nature of its subject matter. The four texts by Ryan use irony and parody to address the following topics: contemporary interpretations of the Trickster figure; the re-creation of identity in the work of Native artists; the subversion of traditional Aboriginal forms of representation; and the deconstruction of political power/government oppression. The texts are interspersed with artist’s statements, excerpts from conversations with artists and curators, reviews and descriptions of various exhibitions. Includes a six-page index. Brief biographical notes on the author and artists interviewed. Circa 400 bibl. ref.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 it