Historiographic review of indigenous peoples research for the years 2014-2018
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The indigenous peoples today are in the focus of the researchers’ attention. However, this interest has not been the same throughout the years, which is proven by the comparison of the early and current definitions of the indigenous people term: it has greatly evolved from paternalism, arising from the modernization plans of colonialism, to the opposite process of decolonization and acknowledgement of their right for preservation of their unique original culture, integrity of the values, practices and institutions. This determines the interest for the indigenous peoples of representatives of various spheres of study. The present article provides a review of research of the indigenous peoples, carried out in the years 2014-2018, to reveal the main tendencies in the studies of the indigenous peoples of the North. The review outlines the main issues the modern researchers are concerned about. Firstly, this is the problem of preserving ethnocultural identity, which, according to the researchers, is solved through art, traditional social practices and crafts, mythology and the original landscape. This issue is followed with social problems the indigenous peoples confront in the process of global transformations in their traditional lifestyle: related studies point out such spheres as health service and social inequality. Researchers are also engaged in studies of economic and legal problems, related to the traditional economic activities of the indigenous peoples of the North, their dialogue with the government and mining industry. The last but not least, there is the climate change problem that influences not only the lifestyle of the indigenous peoples, but also their physical and mental health. Russian research is dominantly focused on the problem of preserving the unique culture of the indigenous peoples and their communication with the state and businesses; foreign researchers are more concerned about the social wellbeing of indigenous peoples, and, particularly, in the issues of health service (Canada) and social abuse (USA)
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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 | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.010 | 0.017 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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".