Bibliographic record
Abstract
In classical anthropological literature, magic has been dealt with as technologies
 that are related to uncertainty and control. The present essay sets out from these
 themes, but argues that a theory of magic, as well, has to look at the triangle
 between matter or substance, form and holistic images, and techniques and
 actions. The incentive to discuss magic in the light of newer anthropological
 theory of materiality derives from a visit to the exhibition at the Tropenmuseum
 in Amsterdam: Vodou – a way of life. On the basis of impressions from this
 exhibition, particularly the encounter with the figures of the bizango spirits, the
 article suggests that magic has to do with materiality in ways that can be further
 illuminated by a closer attention to fetish and to sacrifice. The elaboration of
 materiality into different forms is salient in both of these phenomena. Magic,
 then, has to do with the shaping of matter, whether in form of packages where
 the substance of content may be of significance, or in the form of destruction.
 Keywords: materiality, structuring, technique, fetich, sacrifice, voodoo.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".