„OVER DERES EGEN RACES LIG“: Om Knud Rasmussens syn på kulturmødet og slægtskabet mellem grønlændere
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In an article from 1920 Knud Rasmussen wrote: ”One has no choice. The life of all people of nature (“naturfolk” – the term Rasmussen prefered to “primitive people”) in the future is depending solely on their potentials for development under new conditions; the road to the future must lead over the dead body of their own race.” These words have later been quoted again and again, often detached from their context and therefore misunderstood. It is hard to make the statement match Knud Rasmussen’s role as the communicator of Inuit knowledge and the defender of “primitive” (aboriginal) people, and the statement is therefore usually explained away. The article presents the statement in its full context, including not only the whole series of articles in which it appeared, but also a central text from the Greenlandic part of Rasmussen’s writings. Generally, researchers have been occupied with Rasmussen’s bi-lingual and bi-cultural skills, but at the same time they have excluded the books written in Greenlandic from their research. Seen in the context of Knud Rasmussen’s (very successful) attempt to introduce the evolution-theory to the Greenlanders, there can be no doubt that Rasmussen did in fact mean, what he wrote. To Rasmussen, the future for the aboriginal people of Greenland lay in the interethnic relationship between Danes and Eskimos, which had resulted in a whole new race of people who were neither Eskimo (Inuit) nor Danes, but Kalaallit, Greenlanders. Read in its context, and seen also from the perspective of Rasmussen’s own time and personal situation, the statement might in fact not be so very deviant from the present time’s focus upon mixed identities and hybridity.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.003 |
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.
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".