Introduction: An Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-Lore of the Guiana Indians by Walter E. Roth by Walter E. Roth (1915)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Walter Roth arrived in British Guiana in 1907 to take up an appointment as the government stipendiary magistrate, medical officer, and Protector of Indians in the Pomeroon District. He was 45 years old at the time, and the new post was to all intents and purposes a lateral transfer from one British colony to another. By then, Roth had amassed a distinguished record of publications on Australian Aboriginal ethnography and languages dating from 1897. He had certainly not exhausted the possibilities for research in Queensland or in Australia. However, Roth served in an unrelentingly hostile atmosphere, in the end hounded out of office and vilified by White settlers and the Queensland government alike, united in their dislike of Roth’s anthropological and public policy work. Australia’s loss was Guyana’s great gain. Walter Roth’s pioneering and voluminous researches over a quarter of a century would be hard to replicate in any generation. His written records, skilful illustrations and ethnographic collections are a bequest to Guyana.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
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".