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Record W2944450112 · doi:10.7202/1058061ar

“A Scrap of the Savage”: E. Pauline Johnson’s Canoeing Journalism

2019· article· en· W2944450112 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Jeffrey Swenson

Bibliographic record

VenueStudies in Canadian Literature · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLiterature, Film, and Journalism Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsScrapJournalismArtArt historyPhilosophyMedia studiesSociologyEngineering

Abstract

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We all have a scrap of the savage, a dash of the primitive man concealed about us somewhere -give it play, girls, at least once a year. . . . [J]ust try the old heathen etiquetteless life in a canoe for one summer week, you will be a more womanly woman for the quaffing of nature's wines in the wilderness. -E. Pauline Johnson, "Outdoor Pastimes for Women" ( nature's wines in the wilderness." Johnson's seemingly contradictory message, one that promotes women's independence while titillating a male readership, shows a canny understanding of popular culture related to canoes and stereotypical conceptions of Indigenous peoples. While known for her poetry, Johnson was also a key figure in the canoe craze, a tide of canoeing popularity that surged in the 1870s and peaked in the 1920s. During the canoe craze, Americans and Canadians loved their canoes and made love in their canoes, and Johnson's essays about canoeing demonstrate a manipulation of the stereotypical "Native" resonance linked to the canoe in popular culture. Johnson used those cultural associations to act as an independent New Woman and skirt the edges of traditional gender expectations.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.424
Threshold uncertainty score0.645

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.020
GPT teacher head0.248
Teacher spread0.228 · 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.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
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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