Nunavik: Inuit-controlled Education in Quebec, by Ann Vick-Westgate
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Abstract
REVIEWS • 415strategy to contest or "re-negotiate" a prevailing set of gender proscriptions, although Whitridge vaguely mentions this possibility in passing.Second, in spite of the editors' fine Introduction and Stewart's contribution, not one analysis seriously considers the likelihood that the gender system in question was ever in flux, challenged, or re-negotiated, nor do they explicate how it remained remarkably stable and (apparently) uncontested from generation to generation.In almost every instance, gender is just "there" as a normative set of proscribed rules, roles, and associated objects and tasks.Even where general culture change is noted, gender is treated as just one of many "spheres" that changed from one steady state to another, leaving the processes of transformation in an explanatory black box.I think this lacuna is due, in large part, to an overemphasis on gender attribution.Similarly, not one study considers the possibility that negotiating (or even maintaining) normative gender relationships could have been an internal catalyst for wholesale societal transformation (the likeliest possibility is suggested by Hoffman's study of Unangan needle technology and culture change during the Late Aleutian).That is, gender is treated here as a sub-system that has to keep up with the others, while change comes from the outside, be it from trade, the environment, or missionization.These comments aside, I recommend this volume.It should be on the shelf of every researcher interested in foraging societies past or present-even those of us who prefer warmer climes.It could be a useful text in upperdivision and graduate courses on hunter-gatherers, for it succeeds in providing "a fuller understanding of the endless variation of social and cultural life of indigenous peoples of the far north" (p.9).And for gender enthusiasts, this is state-of-the-art and should be given a serious read.The book is nicely edited except for one glaring (albeit consistent) faux pas:
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.033 | 0.003 |
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".