From Primitive Rebels to How to Change the World : Reflections on Two Periods in Anthropology and History
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Gavin Smith has taught anthropology at the University of Toronto since 1975, becoming a full professor in 1986 and reaching official retirement in 2010. He has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Barcelona and is currently co-editor of Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, a journal published in the Netherlands. Although his discipline is officially that of anthropology, Smith can be considered more broadly as an intellectual of the left, always integrating his anthropological research with social history and political economy. At the forefront of Smith’s intellectual concerns are political protest and forms of production, subjects he explored in both highland Peru and the shantytowns of Lima in 1972–3 and again in 1981. In 1978–79 he took his interest in petty commodity production and the history of property and labour relations to Valencia, Spain and later did extensive comparative work in Spain, France, and Italy on the relationship between capitalist production processes, the informal economy, regionalism, and politics. Ever moving with the times, his more recent work has explored the role of the European Union and other regulatory regimes in shaping both knowledge about Western Europe and the processes of production, memory, citizenship, and place-making on the ground. Widely published in such important venues as the Journal of Peasant Studies, Critique of Anthropology, and other Canadian and Latin American presentation / presentation
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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 | 0.013 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.032 | 0.102 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.020 | 0.020 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.013 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.015 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".