Bibliographic record
Abstract
In his analysis of the work of Recollect missionary Chrestien Le Clercq who was active in the French colony of Canada in the late 17th century, Serge Trudel refl ected on the topic of ethnographic discourse:Narration is subject to two main functions: that of the speaker organizing his narrative (management function, fonction de régie) and that of the participant (testifying or attestation function, fonction testimoniale ou d'attestation), either by testifying on what he has himself seen or heard on location where the event or the anecdote he recalls occurred (testifying function), or by attesting, as reader, the reality of the documents he used to authenticate the event or the anecdote he has reported (attestation function).1 Such understandings of ethnographic narration also applies to the missionary authors we have met in this book.There is little doubt that a more or less conscious form of participation was their dominant method of fi eldwork.However, in organizing their narratives, writers from the Société des Missions Étrangères de Paris posted in highland Southeast Asia took quite different paths from each other.I propose to categorise these paths on the basis of the intention of the authors and the type of vehicle through which they elected to disseminate their prose.The fi rst category brings together writers with no particular ethnological intention.Encompassing the vast majority of missionary authors in the fi eld, a typical representative of this category is Léon-Marie Girod, whom we followed in Chapter 6, who wrote on his voyages through Upper Tonkin in the late 19th century.We saw that Girod was a path breaker in the upper region and the accounts of his journeys on the frontier were met with great popularity back in France.While his prose reached his audience through regular quotes in the yearly Comptes-rendus from his vicariate, it was mainly through popular missionary journals such as Les Missions Catholiques that he expressed himself.A mobile author rarely stationed in the same location for very long, Girod's stories 1 Trudel, Serge.Étude de genèse: le cas de Premier établissement
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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 | 0.004 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.017 | 0.002 |
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".