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Record W3136732328 · doi:10.3167/sa.2020.640402

The Colony as the Mystical Body of Christ

2020· article· en· W3136732328 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Jennifer Scheper Hughes

Bibliographic record

VenueSocial Analysis · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLatin American history and culture
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersRadcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard UniversityYork UniversityUniversity of VirginiaHarvard University
KeywordsMysticismColonialismAppropriationIndigenousMateriality (auditing)VernacularSecularizationBody of ChristHistoryPoliticsEthnologyArtAnthropologyLiteratureAestheticsReligious studiesSociologyPhilosophyTheologyArchaeologyPolitical science

Abstract

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In New Spain in the sixteenth century, the colony was imagined as a sacred body, as the mystical body of Christ(corpus mysticum), in which millions of presumed Catholic Indigenous subjects figured as the body’s wounded feet. Beyond the simple secularization of a theological concept and its appropriation toward political ends, the colonialcorpus mysticumbecame living, enfleshed, and incarnate, both sustaining the colonial project and rebelling against it. The Mexicancorpus mysticumwas grounded in the vernacular theologies and affects of themortandad, the violent death world of the colonial cataclysm. The ‘mysterious materiality’ of the New Worldcorpus mysticumpoints to signs of Mexican Indigenous communities’ theopolitical refusal to be subsumed into the Spanish colonial flesh-body.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.036
Threshold uncertainty score0.071

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.014
Scholarly communication0.0050.002
Open science0.0000.003
Research integrity0.0000.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

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 head0.017
GPT teacher head0.226
Teacher spread0.209 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
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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Published2020
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