The Q’eqchi Healer’s Association of Belize
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Abstract
AbstractSince the 1980s, a considerable amount of scholarly activity has focused on Maya heritage and, especially, on the influences of a globalizing tourist industry flooding Maya-land. In this paper, however, we argue that contemporary Maya identity and cultural processes do not simply reflect and refract globalizing influences such as tourism. In some areas at least, on-going historical processes working in combination with much more recent, non-tourism related influences continue to affect Maya views of identity and heritage. We describe the development of an association of traditional healers in southern Belize whose goals include the promotion of both their medical practices and the broader intellectual and cultural heritage in which these practices are entrenched, and whose target population is their own people, not tourists. Our findings prompt us to reconsider how scholars characterize the influence of global tourism on Maya heritage and culture and to appreciate how issues of cultural heritage and its management can be endogenously and indigenously driven without direct reference to broader global influences and opportunities.AbstractDesde la década de 1980, una gran parte de la actividad de estudio se ha dedicado al patrimonio de la cultura maya y, en particular, el efecto del turismo mundial que inunda el territorio. No obstante, en este ensayo sostengo que la identidad y los procesos culturales de la comunidad maya contemporánea no reflejan sencillamente los efectos de formas de globalización como el turismo. En algunos aspectos, por lo menos, los procesos históricos continuos junto con las mucho más recientes formas de influencia no relacionadas con el turismo siguen teniendo efecto sobre la visión de la comunidad maya en cuanto a su identidad ypatrimonio cultural. El presente ensayo describe el surgimiento de una asociación de curanderos tradicionales del sur de Belice que buscan, entre otras cosas, la promoción tanto de sus prácticas curativas como del conocimiento general y patrimonio cultural que las rodea, entre los habitantes de su propia comunidad, no los turistas. Nuestras conclusiones nos inducen a no sólo preguntarnos otra vez de qué forma los investigadores caracterizan el efecto que tiene el turismo mundial sobre el patrimonio y la cultura de la comunidad maya, sino también valorar las formas de tratar las cuestiones culturales y su administración de forma endógena y autóctona, sin hacer referencia directa a oportunidades y formas de influencia universales.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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.
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