<i>Super Shamou versus Captain Al Cohol</i>: Inuit Cultural Productions and the Discourses on Inuit Drinkers
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The history of alcohol control policy in the Canadian Arctic is perverse. In the 1960s northern administrators regarded alcohol consumption as the right and responsibility of masculine citizens. Thus, they undertook to provide tutelage to Inuit in the “proper” use of the substance in the hopes that Inuit could be produced as proper citizens of the nation. A decade later the alcohol education message directed at Inuit changed. The new message told Inuit to abstain from drink. Many of the educational materials delivering this message, such as the Captain Al Cohol comic book series, started with the premise that Inuit were naïve users of alcohol and that Inuit alcohol abuse stemmed largely from a lack of knowledge about its effects. Nothing could be further from the truth. In this paper I examine Inuit cultural productions dealing with alcohol use and abuse. Some of the works, such as Manassie Akpaliapik’s well-known whalebone and stone sculpture of a bottle embedded in a man’s head, were produced for non-Inuit consumers of Inuit art and culture. Others, including cartoons, short stories, journalism, filmic works and the Super Shamou comic book, were directed at Inuit audiences. I consider how Inuit understandings of citizenship, alcohol, and the self are reflected in these cultural productions.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.046 | 0.030 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| 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".