The "Placing" of Identity in Nomadic Societies: Aboriginal Landscapes of the Northwestern Plains of North America
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Abstract
Nomadic Northwestern Plains First Nations expressed fundamental symbols semiotically across media. Landscapes were transformational assemblages signs and symbols; circle and power axis signified the cosmos. Ritual monuments were linked through animal ceremonialism to cosmic renewal. Animals were limitless if appropriate ritual was maintained. Formalized circular household plans signified the cosmos with the horizon-bounded outer landscape read by extension as consistent with the constructed inner world. Cyclic time had spatial parallels, with sites as cyclic iterations prototypic place and performance. This aboriginal life-world was a web overlapping territories with mobile centres and radiating itineraries. Sharing resources and ritual sites, and transient co-residence groups were facilitated by hand-signs that reinforced sym bolic unity-within-diversity. These characteristics all had definable landscape correlates and consequences. Monuments were of a site, not upon it: deriving substance and power from location, they became natural elements. Resume Les premieres nations nomades des plaines du Nord-Ouest exprimaient semiotiquement leurs symboles fondamentaux par divers canaux. Les pay sages etaient des assemblages en transformation de signes et de symboles et le cercle et l'axe de puissance representaient le cosmos. Les monuments rituels etaient lies au renouveau cosmique par des ceremonies mettant en scene des animaux. Ceux-ci etaient consideres inepuisables si on observait le rituel adequat. Les habitats circulaires representaient le cosmos et le paysage exterieur delimite par l'horizon pouvait par extension etre « lu » comme conforme aux structures du monde interieur. Les cycles du temps avaient leurs pendants spatiaux, des circuits cycliques de prototypes d'emplacements et d'activites. Ce monde autochtone etait une toile de territoires qui se chevauchaient, avec des centres mobiles autour desquels rayonnaient des trajets. Le partage des ressources et des lieux rituels et la coexistence passagere des groupes etaient facilites par le langage gestuel qui renforcait une symbolique « unite dans la diversite ». Ces caracteristiques avaient toutes des correlations et des consequences definissables dans le paysage. Les monuments etaient d'un emplacement, pas superposes a lui, et tiraient substance et force du lieu. Ils devenaient des elements « naturels ».
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".