Edward Said and Tahia Carioca: Performing From a Place of Exile Or a Place of Home
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Edward Said (1935-2003), intellectual and theoretical citizen of the world and author of Orientalism, at the age of fourteen attended a performance of Tahia Carioca (1915-1999), an enormously popular Egyptian dancer and actress. Said was at the time living with his family in Cairo as an exile from Palestine following the formation of the Israeli state in 1948. The evening outing to Casino Badia was arranged by Samir Yousef, Said's school friend from a private British-run academy, Victoria College. A consideration of Edward Said's encounters with and writing about Tahia Carioca reveals the ongoing repositioning of orientalism as a theoretical framework in an increasing global culture that as Said points out in Culture and Imperalism is a sort of theatre where various political and ideological causes engage one another (1993, xiii). This presentation argues that Said's (re) positioning of Tahia Carioca's performance acts to (re) define and (re) articulate the historical and cultural meaning of Egyptian arts.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".