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Record W2781703668

Obituary: Epeli Hau’ofa (1939–2009)

2009· article· en· W2781703668 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueRUNE (Research UNE) · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicNational Identity and Symbolism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsObituaryTheologyPhilosophy
DOInot available

Abstract

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In January of this year there died in Suva Professor Hau'ofa, a fine scholar, and the South Pacific's most attractive and distinguished intellectual and creative thinker of his generation. For he has been deemed to be worthy to rank alongside earlier towering figures of great vision respected around the Pacific littoral, like Sir Peter Buck, from New Zealand, or Sir Thomas Davis, of Raratonga, the amazing sailor-doctor and worker in space research medicine and ambassador extraordinary, he later to become the Pacific Islander of the Century. The late Epeli Hau'ofa, a Tongan, was born to missionary parents then working in Papua New Guinea, where he would - early on in his career - do some powerful research on the impact of sudden 'civilization' on a peaceful, and hitherto very isolated, coastal village. Career-establishing further research took place, as well as in Fiji, in Australia and Canada - the latter training involving a thesis with field work in the Caribbean. And he would also do significant research work in Tonga, where he was for a brief period the 'Keeper of Palace Records', a task which fitted well with his fascination with all the Pacific's traditional lore. Yet, arguably, Australia - and his Australian-born wife, Barbara and research companion - also contributed much to his temper, from his time in residence in the University of New England, and his early studies there in English literature, as well as in the University's History Department near Russel Ward who was also a mentor in the College to which both belonged. After various duties in both historical and contemporary studies in Tonga he would join the University of the South Pacific, to serve first as a teacher, and then as Head of the Department of Sociology, Head of the School of Social and Economic Development, and Professor of Social Anthropology. And he would plan for cultural emancipation for the peoples of the great Ocean, and so see the fledgling institution spread out to embrace the Cook Islands, Fiji, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Nieue, the Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Vanuatu and Samoa. Meanwhile, in 1997, he would found the Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture, heading it for the rest of his life, as well as developing ever-closer ties with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Hawai'i, and the East-West Center there.

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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)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.747
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.002

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 head0.131
GPT teacher head0.464
Teacher spread0.333 · 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