Bibliographic record
Abstract
Rod Janzen and Max Stanton. The Hutterites in North America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. 306 pp. Photographs and maps. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00 hc. At last! A book on the Hutterites which builds on the formidable foundations established by John Hostetler with his Society in 1974. And yet this is a very different kind of book. Where Hostetler builds a picture of uniformity and stability, Janzen and Stanton stress diversity and change. They replace a static descriptive model of society--which has served us well for thirty years--with a more complex post-modern vision of a culture evolving and mutating. They weigh the differences between the four leut (people). Equally important, they emphasize the range of behaviours within each clan, and contrast these variations of the Hutterite with our own rather frenetic lifestyle. Janzen and Stanton have written an attractive and accessible book, which will, I hope, be enjoyed by a wide range of readers, both within and outside the academy. The authors--one a social historian and the other an anthropologist and geographer--have been observing life on the colonies for a combined total of more than fifty years. Much of their data were gathered on their frequent visits to colonies. They report what they saw, or were told, often using the words of their correspondents. Important points are illustrated, not with tables and graphs, but with anecdotes. For example, when discussing the role of the minister, they recount coming across a seventy-five-year-old minister leveling land with a huge mechanical scraper in sweltering heat. On another occasion, they saw six- to twelve-year-old boys and girls laying new plumbing lines (198). Perhaps because of this reliance on direct observation, this book drew me into the communal world of colony life in a way previous treatments have not. It struck a chord with me when the authors mention how visitors soon become involved in discussions full of incisive comments and repartee. Young people are active participants in these exchanges. They display an enviable level of self-confidence, and are clearly comfortable interacting with adults. Their religious belief is what has sustained the Hutterites throughout their 400-year history. It is accorded a central place in this book. The authors explain the way in which relations with the Bruderhof, based in Europe and eastern North America, contributed to the greatest modern crisis facing the Hutterites, the split of the Schmiedeleut into conservative and progressive factions, during the 1990s. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.002 | 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) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".