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The Hopi Ontology: Preservation and the Indigenous

2015· article· en· W2601716161 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Jane Duran

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian journal of native studies · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicArchaeology and Natural History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHopiIndigenousNavajoHistorySociologyAnthropologyEthnologyEnvironmental ethicsGeographyEcologyPhilosophyLinguistics
DOInot available

Abstract

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Among contemporary Native American groups, few have achieved as much renown in the popular culture as the Hopi, whose artifacts are frequently cited in commercial magazines and journals, and whose feuds with the Navajo are reported throughout the Southwest.1 Indeed, the Hopi figure so prominently in the lore of the Arizona-New Mexico region that even reporting on other tribal groups often mentions their culture and the impact that they have had in the area.2But comparatively little has been written on the Hopi ontology or worldview, its importance among other indigenous metaphysical systems, or why features of the ontology might be deemed to be intrinsically appealing and useful to us today. It will be the argument of this paper that the Hopi ontological structures are underrepresented in compendia of views about indigenous cultures, and that their overall metaphysics -or views of reality-are worthy of closer examination, especially from the standpoint of ecology.IThe Native Americans of the Southwest are often designated in certain ways in contemporary journalism, specific focal points of their belief systems having gained a toehold in the larger imagination, with consequences in the mindset both of those who live in the region and of those who visit the areas in question. The Havasupai are known for their identification with the Grand Canyon; indeed, entire books have been done about their battles with the federal government surrounding what they feel is not mere ownership of parts of the Canyon, but a sense of belonging to it so profound as to be difficult to articulate in Eurocentric terms. The Navajo are seen as sheepherders and the possessors of the traditional dwellings known as hogans; the fact that they are statistically the most numerous group of Native Americans extant makes them loom large in the mind of most Americans.The Hopi are often seen in terms of kachinas; some objects from their region are known as kachina dolls, and to possess one that has been made carefully or actually used in ceremonies gives its owner a certain cachet.3 But the status of the kachinas for the Hopi, cast in terms more comprehensible to Western cultures, is by no means clearcut. Here is JJichard Bradfield on the place of the kachinas:Not all katcinas are the of deceased human beings - some represent animals, some plants or other inanimate beings -but most are, and the common belief regarding their origin appears to be, in Kennard's words, 'that the of the dead go to the west where they become Kachinas and return to the village as clouds.'4Bradfield goes on to say, however, that he believes that it is a mistake to refer to the clouds themselves as kachina; rather, he calls them spirits standing in very close relation to clouds.5 Like many indigenous cultures across the globe -and, for that matter, in a vein similar to many of the ancient cultures of which we have a great deal of knowledge, such as the Middle Kingdom Egyptians -the Hopi appear to venerate the dead, and to accord them not only their own mode of existence in the spirit realm, but even their own locale. Thus it is that a directional sense for the Hopis encompasses information about the kachinas and other deities, and it is not possible to make meaningful statements about crop growing, cycles and so forth without advertence to this mode of being.In addition, the Hopi hold important and somewhat unconventional views about various flora and fauna. These views, again, vary from indigenous nation to indigenous nation: for the Havasupai, attitudes toward plants and animals are consistent with an identification worldview or metaphysics-informants such as the anthropologists' often-cited Mark Hanna have an attitude toward animals that places them squarely within the context of everyday use.6 But for the Hopi, not only are certain animals sacred, various objects indicating parts of the animals are also sacred, and used in ceremonies. …

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.759
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.004
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.084
GPT teacher head0.348
Teacher spread0.264 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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