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Record W2883931807

The Clan Deity

2018· article· en· W2883931807 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Sreejith J. Varma

Bibliographic record

VenuePostcolonial text · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSocial and Economic Development in India
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsClanTribeWorshipCultHistoryLiteratureAncient historyVernacularSociologyArtAnthropologyPhilosophyTheology
DOInot available

Abstract

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Narayan (b. 1939) is a tribal fiction writer from Kerala, India. His debut novel, Kocharethi, which depicted the lives of two generations of a family of the Malayarayar tribe, was published to much critical acclaim in 1998 and won the prestigious Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for the year 1999. The novel’s English translation titled, Kocharethi: The Araya Woman was published in 2011. Besides Kocharethi, Narayan has published seven other novels and five short story collections. Narayan’s Malayalam short story, “Kula Devata” translated here as, “The Clan Deity” offers a rare glimpse of the tribal religion and the coming into being of the cult of goddess worship among them. The tribals depicted in “The Clan deity” do not seem to be the vagrant/nomadic type; they are a settled people that engage chiefly in cultivation and possibly livestock rearing. The short story, which is symptomatic of the thematic preoccupations of Narayan in general, powerfully exposes how the ingrained prejudices about tribals as being primitive, barbaric, and with no legitimate claims for land-ownership, lead to biased and revisionist historiographies.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.776
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.003

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 head0.022
GPT teacher head0.316
Teacher spread0.294 · 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; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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