The significance of place and indigenous knowledge in Louise Erdrich's Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country (2003)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Place and the stories that come from them are an integral and inseparable part of nature. Nature is landscape and mindscape conjoined and this idea is well illustrated in the autobiographical writings of Louise Erdrich. Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country is an autobiographical work by Erdrich, which was published by the National Geographical Society in 2003. In it, Erdrich explores the relationship between Books and Islands, which she argues function in disparate, but similar, cross-cultural ways. Most of the book takes place in Canada in the summer of 2002. Along with her The Blue Jay's Dance and Route 2 (co-authored with Michael Dorris) Books and Islands, although neglected, is a significant one in terms of our understanding of Erdrich and her writings. Autobiographical works by Aboriginal people are always of importance in increasing our understanding of their lives since they are both spiritual and confessional in nature and illustrate the character of dreams and stories. They also illustrate the significance of Indigenous knowledge and places for Aboriginal people.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| 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".