Ann McElroy. Nunavut Generations: Change and Continuity in Canadian Inuit Communities
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Abstract
Ann McElroy. Generations: Change and Continuity in Canadian Communities (Waveland Press, 2008. ISBN: -10: 1577664892) At the beginning of the first chapter of this book, Ann McElroy includes a quote from leader Jose Kusugak, who said, Nunavut offers a lesson to the broader global community. And that lesson is about the resilience of the human spirit. Resilience in the face of sociocultural, economic and other issues is indeed a core part of the experience, and McElroy's book discusses such an idea through a cultural history of those who call, or have called, home Canada's most recent territory. Using a mixture of oral history, geography and folklore to describe how generations change over time, McElroy's book is broad in its scope, diverse in its targeted audience and accessible to people beyond the academy. People interested in cultural geography, anthropology, folklore, religious studies and Canadian history would reap the most benefit from the text, and the bibliographies following each chapter are extensive and well organized, offering encouragement to look further into the material at hand. Consisting of eight chapters and a field note-based epilogue, the history of the in starts by describing Nunavut's rise to territorial status. The first chapter, Inuit and Astronauts, successfully describes how culture is both rooted in traditional lifeways and embraces both modern technology and lifestyles. McElroy describes a Day celebration, which includes country music and visits from astronauts, as a way to frame the premise of her ethnography. She makes it clear that personal experience is important and is widely incorporated in the book to describe how deal with sociocultural and political issues m a way that blends together natural landscape and cultures of multiple generations. The notion of the authenticity of culture also plays an important role in the text, especially in recognizing the fact that life has been heavily romanticized by outsiders. In the second chapter, Early Encounters, European romanticism is brought to the reader's attention in a historical context. McElroy does an excellent job of demonstrating that this romanticism is false; the lifeways were just as rooted in tradition and variation as any other culture of their era, and embracing new things was not always something detrimental. Such embracing carries on to the third chapter, Dance from the Heart, which discusses Qallunaat (European) influences on life with an emphasis on religion, health and authority. Oral history describes how such interactions are met with both fondness and ambivalence, and McElroy does not shy away from including the fact that there were issues with many outside influences. Up to this point in the text, there is little about McElroy's personal experience in the field, but this changes with the fourth chapter, Living with the People. Breaking down her fieldwork experience chronologically, we learn of McElroy's quest to understand life from their perspective; the chapter is unromantic in describing the fact that conditions were not always the best. An emphasis on relationships with the locals is also brought to the reader's attention; she saw the families she interacted with as mentors and peers, bringing a personal touch to the ethnography. …
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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) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.025 | 0.002 |
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