The Flow of Milk: Nursing Prescriptions, Clanship and Locality in Nage Society<sup>1</sup>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACTThe Nage people of eastern Indonesia prescribe several plant foods believed to initiate the flow of a new mother's milk. Nage assert that a woman should follow the galactogogue prescribed by her husband's clan, thus connecting the practice with a segmentary social organization in what can be seen as the inverse of Nage plant totemism. A review of actual usage, however, shows that many clans share the same nursing foods and that galactogenic practice reveals regional patterns, thus raising questions of why Nage associate nursing prescriptions with preferentially patrilineal clans rather than locality. It is then shown how statements about the prescriptions form part of a tension between patrifiliation and matrifiliation in this basically ambilineal society. As a way of connecting fathers physically as well as socially to recognized offspring, the analysis further demonstrates how ideas about galactogogues are comparable to usages habitually included under the anthropological rubric of ‘couvade’. It also provides a context in which to consider why ‘participants’ views’ of their society may diverge noticeably from ethnographically observable practice.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".