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Record W2104046831 · doi:10.33137/rr.v31i2.9182

Two French Views of Monstrous Peoples in Sub-Saharan Africa

2008· article· fr· W2104046831 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Saara Leskinen

Bibliographic record

VenueRenaissance and Reformation · 2008
Typearticle
Languagefr
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistorical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsThe RenaissanceHumanitiesArtEthnologySociologyArt history

Abstract

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Les témoignages anciens et médiévaux de l’Afrique subsaharienne mentionnent un certain nombre de nations qui étaient soit physiquement extrêmement déformées, soit avaient des coutumes bizarres et inhumaines. Pendant la Renaissance, de tels récits avaient encore cours, bien que certains auteurs les aient remis en question et même rejetés. Cet article examine les raisons pour lesquelles les auteurs français André Thevet et François de Belleforest ont nié l’existence de telles nations. Les deux auteurs ont emprunté aux théories traditionnelles concernant ces nations monstrueuses, mais les ont adaptées à leur propre point de vue, illustrant ainsi la flexibilité avec laquelle les auteurs de la Renaissance sélectionnaient et interprétaient les savoirs qui leur étaient antérieurs.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.248
Threshold uncertainty score0.494

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0150.015
Scholarly communication0.0050.003
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

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 head0.030
GPT teacher head0.223
Teacher spread0.193 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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