Knowledge, Ethics, and Power: Publishing African Objects Without Clear African Provenance
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Abstract
October 01 2020 Knowledge, Ethics, and Power: Publishing African Objects Without Clear African Provenance Lisa Homann, Lisa Homann Guest Dialogue Editor; Associate Professor, Department of Art & Art History, UNC Charlotte; UNC Editorial Board Member, African Arts Consortium Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar UCLA Editorial Board, UCLA Editorial Board Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Jean Borgatti, Jean Borgatti Consulting Curator, African, Oceanic, and Native American Art, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA; Visiting Fellow, Clark University and Boston University; Professor, Art History, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria (2013–2017) Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Akinwumi Ogundiran, Akinwumi Ogundiran Chancellor's Professor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Silvia Forni, Silvia Forni Senior Curator of African Arts and Cultures and Deputy Head, Department of Art and Culture, Royal Ontario Museum Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Christopher Slogar, Christopher Slogar Associate Professor of Art History, California State University, Fullerton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie Professor of Art History and Visual Cultures of Global Africa, University of California Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Charlotte Joy, Charlotte Joy Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, University of London Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Kevin MacDonald Kevin MacDonald Professor of African Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Lisa Homann Guest Dialogue Editor; Associate Professor, Department of Art & Art History, UNC Charlotte; UNC Editorial Board Member, African Arts Consortium UCLA Editorial Board Jean Borgatti Consulting Curator, African, Oceanic, and Native American Art, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA; Visiting Fellow, Clark University and Boston University; Professor, Art History, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria (2013–2017) Akinwumi Ogundiran Chancellor's Professor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Silvia Forni Senior Curator of African Arts and Cultures and Deputy Head, Department of Art and Culture, Royal Ontario Museum Christopher Slogar Associate Professor of Art History, California State University, Fullerton Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie Professor of Art History and Visual Cultures of Global Africa, University of California Santa Barbara Charlotte Joy Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, University of London Kevin MacDonald Professor of African Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London Online Issn: 1937-2108 Print Issn: 0001-9933 © 2020 by the Regents of the University of California.2020The Regents of the University of California African Arts (2020) 53 (4): 17–23. https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_a_00548 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Search Site Citation Lisa Homann, UCLA Editorial Board, Jean Borgatti, Akinwumi Ogundiran, Silvia Forni, Christopher Slogar, Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, Charlotte Joy, Kevin MacDonald; Knowledge, Ethics, and Power: Publishing African Objects Without Clear African Provenance. African Arts 2020; 53 (4): 17–23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_a_00548 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentAll JournalsAfrican Arts Search Advanced Search In light of current debates surrounding collecting histories and possible restitution of cultural heritage, it is not a stretch to say that our field is in the midst of a significant self-reevaluation. This journal is no exception. African Arts currently has no policy requiring authors to document the provenance of objects addressed in its pages, although the editorial consortium has initiated the adoption of a set of standards. While unease over publishing works of questionable provenance is not new, the concern is a particularly vital one for African Arts, which publishes scores of high-quality color images in each issue, both online and in print. The recent publication in African Arts of a Research Note spurred discussion among the journal's editorial boards. The essay focuses on archaeological ceramics identified as Bura and... © 2020 by the Regents of the University of California.2020The Regents of the University of California You do not currently have access to this content.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".