Bibliographic record
Abstract
First, my thanks to Harvey Feit for wanting to take the time and effort to assemble the nomination package, and to Chief George Wapache, John Turner, Toby Morantz and Fikret Berkes for writing generous letters of support. It is nice to have friends, and it is nice to be appreciated.Now for the wordier part:His work and mentorship provided a model for contemporary anthropology as it negotiated the relationship between the more purely academic perspective and the emergent applied orientation of anthropology in Canada in the 1970s. [Harvey Feit, Introduction at Weaver-Tremblay Award Ceremony, CASCA 2006]What was my negotiation? Where to begin? With sage advice to the young? Sure, I can do that in short order, recalling Barbara Myerhoff 's (1982) comments that the elderly will present stories of what they would like to believe is true about their lives. My advice to you is to just appraise this old guy's stories with good social-scientific scepticism, for whatever value, pragmatic, abstract, comic or tragic, you may find in them. Be open-minded. As Northrop Frye commented, he was open-minded - but open at both ends. For my part, I believe what follows is true, complete with facets of the pragmatic, abstract, comic and tragic. My stance towards you mimics Rabelais, who suggested to his readers that they appraise, consider, savour and work on getting into his prose, and then go for the marrow. And if you do not like it, well, you can check out Rabelais for that.A synopsis of my academic history would seem to recommend that everyone should start at the University of Chicago after grade ten, 16 and very immature. Then for three years fail a bunch of courses, go to Korea as a corporal in the U.S. First Marine Division, get shot at, be astonished at the way that a Korean woman in serious straits could laugh good-humouredly at my awkwardness when I could do little to help her situation, return home to live in my father's house in Raleigh, NC and work as a grease monkey (that is a technical term), try engineering at North Carolina State University, fail chemistry, work as a draftsman, labour in the trench on a sewer pipeline, try philosophy and psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, get married and have kids, drop out of school, work for four years in a record shop in Chapel Hill, repairing, selling and installing radios, phonographs and hi-fi components, and finally return to school for the last term and graduate with a bachelors degree in philosophy. Take about 12 years for this. Then start grad school (still at UNC-Chapel Hill) with a wife, three children, an advisor (Lewis Levine) who was a linguist and, in my opinion, seriously misanthropic, and have weekly meetings with a psychiatast-in-training.On the other hand, after all that flunking, wage work, shifting majors and reflexive therapy, I did not have a big sociological ego to dance with on the heads of some objectified, hapless study population, and I had a more normal family situation with my wife and children when I went to the community of Waskaganish on the coast of James Bay in 1963. 1 found a few Mends, maintained those relationships and used the morality of friendship to define my professional ethics. And family makes another difference: my late wife Sarah and my daughters Susan and Jennifer have each done M.A. theses on Cree topics.In the late 1960s I became a Quaker by convincement, when I found the Society of Friends' morality, social conscience and actions, and their spiritual basis in silent (deep listening) worship very suitable. In 1971, after six years at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, I got a job at McMaster University, at that time the only university in the world with several northernist anthropologists, and stayed there until my retirement in 1996.A half-dozen years ago Regna Darnell and Lisa Valentine invited me to a conference on theorizing the Americanist tradition. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".