Marina Mogilner. Homo Imperii: A History of Physical Anthropology in Russia.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In contrast to cultural anthropology/ethnography, whose role in the governance of Russia and the Soviet Union has been the subject of several recent books, the history of physical anthropology in Russia is virtually unknown to English-speaking readers. A revised and adapted translation of a study that appeared in Russian in 2008, Marina Mogilner's book not only fills the factual gap, but also puts the politics of the discipline in a larger European context. Mogilner focuses on the period between 1872, when the Society of Lovers of the Natural Sciences, Anthropology, and Ethnography (IOLEAE) accepted a donation to endow the first chair of physical anthropology at Moscow University, and the years before World War I. One of the central figures is Dmitrii Nikolaevich Anuchin, a zoologist who received training from some of the pioneers of physical anthropology in France and Germany and became the first holder of the Moscow chair in 1879. His retirement in 1920 and death in 1923 symbolize the end of an era in which physical anthropology branded itself “the science of modernity” (p. 371).
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.002 |
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".