PRAGMA TIC IDEALISM IN CHALLENGING STRUCTURAL POWER
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Reflections on the situational ethics of Advocacy AnthropologyOn a cold February day in 1999, my small airplane flew from Nova Scotia across the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Newfoundland and landed at Gander on the island's north shore.A Mi'kmaq Indian friend picked me up in his truck.I had visited N ewfoundland before, but never in the winter.As a special guest of the Mi'kmaq Indian community ofMiawpukek at Conne River, a small fishing village at Bay d'Espoir on the island's south coast, my earlier fieldwork trip in the summer of 1996 had been a pleasure.This time, however, it was serious business as two Newfoundland Mi'kmaq Indian fisherrneo were on trial for having violated Section 78(a) of this Canadian province's Fisheries Act.Although this was not the frrst time Mi'kmaq had been arrested or fined for violating federal or provincial hunting and fishing laws, Miawpukek's headman and tribal council had determined to challenge the authority of the provincial government on this particular front.They argued that they still possessed traditional rights to bunt, fish, and trap in ancestral territories on the island.Legal advisers maintained that the Mi'kmaq's aboriginal rights are officially protected by Canada's 1982 Constitution Act, which explicitly states: "The existing Aboriginal and Treaty Rights of aboriginal peoples of Canada are hereby recoguized and affrrmed."My own long-term historical research on Mi'kmaq cultural history led me to support the Miawpukek First Nation in its legal confrontation.I had worked on various native rights claims with bands within the Mi'kmaq tribal nation since 1981 and authored a historical ethnography titled The Mi 'kmaq: Resistance, Accommodation, and Cultural Survival (1996).I had also presented dozens of scholarly papers at professional meetings and published scores of articles conceruing Mi'kmaq culture and history.My support for the Miawpukek positionwas evident in a paper I presented at a 1996 conference of specialists at the University ofToronto in 1996, subsequently published as 'We Fight with Dignity ': The Miawpukek Mi 'kmaq Quest for Aboriginal Rights in Newfoundland (Prins 1998).Combined with my professional status as a university professor, these scholarly credits made me a potentially valuable expert witness in court room trials such as the case formally known as R. v. lohn and lohn, described here.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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 it