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Record W2051693908 · doi:10.1177/1532708609359510

On the Possibility of Spectral Ethnography

2010· article· en· W2051693908 on OpenAlex
Justin Armstrong

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueCulture Studies &#x2194 Critical Methodologies · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMigration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEthnographyMateriality (auditing)NarrativeAnthropologySociologyContext (archaeology)Abandonment (legal)Space (punctuation)AestheticsHistoryArtArchaeologyLiteraturePhilosophyLinguisticsPolitical science

Abstract

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This article reflects on the possibility of engaging in a kind of ethnography of absence, an anthropology of people, and places and things that have been removed, deleted, and abandoned to the flows of time and space. Here, the author suggests a mode of ethnographic inquiry that performs an archaeology of the emptied present and of the vacant spaces of culture. Using recent ethnographic fieldwork in the North American High Plains as the basis of his analysis, the author seeks to reimagine his own ethnographic practices in the context of these hollowed-out and spectrally resonant spaces of culture. What significance can be drawn from the multiple layers of time and materiality that have accumulated in these places and what type of haunted narratives can emerge from the discarded remnants of human occupation? How can ethnography excavate the lives-once-lived from the space of abandonment?

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.069
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.103
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.069
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.005
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.212
GPT teacher head0.475
Teacher spread0.263 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it