Revolted but not revolting: reflections on the Sakalava division of labour and forms of subjectification
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Abstract
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Readers seeking further clarification should turn to my book, Michael Lambek, The Weight of the Past: Living with History in Mahajanga, Madagascar (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2002), especially pp.115–23. I use the following conventions of transcription: ‘o’ is pronounced ‘u’ and ô is pronounced ‘o;’ ‘j’ is pronounced ‘z;’ ñ is the velar n (ng). Jacques Lombard, Le Royaume Sakalava du Menabe: Essai d'analyse d'un système politique ‘a Madagascar, 17è–20è (Paris: éditions de l'ORSTOM, 1988 [1973]), pp.40–41, citing A. and G. Grandidier, Collection des ouvrages anciens concernants Madagascar, tome III, pp.616–18. Michael Lambek, ‘The Value of Coins in a Sakalava Polity: Money, Death, and Historicity in Mahajanga, Madagascar’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 43, 4 (2001), pp.735–62. Gillian Feeley-Harnik, A Green Estate: Restoring Independence in Madagascar (Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991). Cf. Jean-François Baré, ‘L'organisation sociale Sakalava du Nord: Une récapitulation’, in Conrad Kottak et al. (eds.) Madagascar: Society and History (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1986), pp.353–92, esp. p.358. Andrew Walsh, ‘Constructing Antankaraña: History, Ritual, and Identity in Northern Madagascar’, PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, 1998. Andrew Walsh, ‘Responsibility, Taboos and “the Freedom to do Otherwise” in Northern Madagascar’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 8, 3 (2002), pp.451–68. Lambek, Weight of the Past; Arnold van Gennep, The Rites of Passage (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960 [1908]). Maurice Bloch, From Blessing to Violence: History and Ideology in the Circumcision Ritual of the Merina of Madagascar (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986). Baré, ‘L'organisation sociale Sakalava’, pp.353–92. Cf. Michael Lambek, Human Spirits: A Cultural Account of Trance in Mayotte (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981). Pauline McKenzie Aucoin, ‘Blinding the Snake: Women's Myths as Insubordinate Discourse in Western Fiji’, in P.M. Aucoin (ed.), ‘Articulated Meanings: Studies in Gender and the Politics of Culture’, Anthropologica, 42 (2000), pp.11–27. Cf. Feeley-Harnik, A Green Estate, pp.343–4. Gillian Feeley-Harnik, ‘Divine Kingship and the Meaning of History among the Sakalava of Madagascar’, Man, 13 (1978), pp.402–17. Ibid. Marcel Mauss, The Gift, vol.I. Cunnison, trans. (London: Cohen and West, 1966 [1925]); Michel Foucault, ‘The Subject and Power and On the Genealogy of Ethics’, in Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow, Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), pp.208–52, esp. p.212. Louis Dumont, Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and its Implications (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970). Michel Foucault, ‘The Subject and Power’, see note 16.
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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
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| 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.
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".