<i>Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico</i>. By Frank Graziano.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This is a compelling and lovely book on many levels. Frank Graziano is known for his previous works on Catholic saints and saintly devotions in Latin America. This work, however, is more concentrated and dense in both content and in geographic scope; it is unusual in that it is focused exclusively on Mexico, and in particular, on southern and west-central states of Mexico (Señor de Chalma, la Virgen de los Remedios), Jalisco (Niño de Cacahuatito), and Oaxaca (Señor del Ray, Virgin of Juquila). Nevertheless, in the course of his research, Graziano visited many more sites (listed in an appendix) both in Mexico and Spain, and the richness of his knowledge from this broader experience comes across clearly in the text. The book is a holistic and fairly exhaustive study of the dynamics of devotion to saints, in all its material, sensory, affective, and practical dimensions. The book is divided into six main sections, each focused on a particular saint or an aspect of local devotion to a miraculous image. Graziano has chosen to present the material in two voices that alternate from chapter to chapter: one, a narrative voice that describes the scene he encountered at each shrine, which evokes vividly the experiential qualities of people’s faith and passion for the saints as related to the ins and outs of everyday life; the other voice is that of the academic analyst/interpreter, who dissects various aspects of this devotion—“projective animation,” “absorption,” “poetic faith,” “simulacra,” and so on—in more conventional, explanatory, scholarly language.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| 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".