Bibliographic record
Abstract
The structure of this book is appealing.It is reminiscent of the Holocaust 'memoir', Fugitive Pieces, by the Canadian poet Anne Michaels; both are beautifully written books comprised of two unequal parts whose relation is unspecified-and suggestive by virtue of that fact.The explicit concern of both books is the relation between lives despoiled by war and the surface routines that precede and follow the war.Both ponder, too, the relation between individual lives and the narratives that seem to live through those individuals as if possessed of their own identities.Is it not 'curious', Michael Jackson writes (pages 45-6), 'the way in which individuals and their stories metamorphose, each borrowing its identity from elsewhere and leaving us perennially uncertain as to whether we are authors of our own lives and who is the real author of any story told'.This quotation comes at the beginning of the second part of Jackson's book, entitled 'Harmattan', and extending to 129 pages.'Harmattan' is a West African word for a dry, parching wind, at the turn of the year, blowing an obscuring, red, dusty, fog across the land.The first part of the book of 44 pages is entitled 'Limitrophes': a Latin-Greek composite meaning a sustaining frontierland.Jackson describes his book as a 'philosophical fiction'.It continues that interrogation, prominent in his recent works (e.g.2013a, 2013b, 2013c), of how best to write the movement of contemporary lives-their power and freedom to access the wherewithal that enables their continuing to take meaningful shape-while also writing of the global forces apparently ranged against them.This writing could also be termed 'cosmopolitan' in ethos.Is it not the case, Jackson urges, that their knowledge of the particularities of individual human lives (polis) enables anthropologists to illuminate the general conditions of a universal human nature (cosmos)?Our disciplinary focus is, or should be, this dialectic: illuminating the connections between human being and being human.In this enterprise, furthermore, the genre of expression-ethnography, fiction, philosophy, folktale or myth-is less consequential than the author's sensibility.Is it not the case, for instance, that everywhere one discerns 'a human need to live life on one's own terms' (pages 10-11).Among the Kuranko of
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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 | 0.003 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.003 |
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".