Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper examines one of the most fascinating social masquerade institutions in Igbo culture, in Nigeria. The masquerade institution is seen as an anthropological continuum, manifesting in the people’s long tradition of developed performance and festivities. The Ojionu masquerade, as an example of one of such numerous dynamic and virile masquerades, is studied as a spirit incarnate. The essence and spirituality of the masquerade; the masquerade’s physical being and aesthetics; the thrilling, exciting and vibrant performance of the Ojionu masquerade, supported by pulsating rhythmic music; the organization and management of the Ojionu masquerade, as an example of an indigenous communal cultic institution, are studied and delineated upon. The research adapts and benefits from a “source study” based on personal interviews and the writer’s privileged eye-witness account. It is significant to note that, the Ojionu masquerade, is often seen, perhaps, as the highest realms of entertainment for social occasion from a spiritually profound incarnate. The popularity and acceptability of the Ojionu masquerade remained stubbornly insuppressible aspect of the people’s cultural entertainment despite the eroding and crushing influences of foreign cultures and, the unpopular and obnoxious anti-masquerade legislations by local and municipal governments and, above all, that of the orthodox foreign Eurocentric religious doctrines who refer to masquerade groups as “a congregation of Satan”.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".