An American-European Road Not Taken, or Opportunity Lost? <i>Areitos</i>, Pictographs, and History: Poetics and Politics
Bibliographic record
Abstract
From late fifteenth- to late sixteenth-century Europe, travellers and intellectuals from Iberia, Italy, France, and England (at least) were dazzled by the so-called areitos of the Caribbean and mainland Americas. Most held them to be a public-performed poetry/song that kept peoples’ history, spirituality, and shared culture alive in ways lost to contemporary European elites but known to the ancients and folk life. Many yearned to transfer such usage from the Americas to Europe, even to integrate them into a European poetics and historiography. This was all the more so because the areitos seemed linked to pictorial and pictographic practice, seeming to recall notably those Egyptian hieroglyphs that had fascinated the same European scholars since the mid-fifteenth century. This moment of possible Americo-European transculturation stayed alive throughout the sixteenth century, but it did not survive it in any meaningful way.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
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.
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".