Blessings and Horrors of the Interior: Ethno-Historical Studies of Inuit Perceptions Concerning the Inland Region of West Greenland
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The yearly cycle of the marine adapted historic Inuit in western Greenland included a stay in Nunap Timaa, the Inland (or interior), where they hunted on the high plains bordering the inland ice. Families traveled far to reach the “classical” hunting grounds, where they spent a few weeks in summer camps hunting caribou and fishing for char. Summer was a great time for feasting and socializing. At the same time, however, the inland region was considered extremely dangerous: it was haunted by qivittut [human outcasts] and a great variety of “non-empirical” creatures: ghosts, inland people, giants, animal monsters, etc. These inland beings are presented in a comprehensive database on legends and tales from nineteenth century western Greenland. Inuit had contradictory feelings about the Inland and the Greenland Ice Cap, which were perceived as a dangerous transitional zone between worlds, yet these landscapes held an important position in the view of the world of historic Inuit.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 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".