Boundless Water, Boundless Ice—Arctic Cosmological Concepts in Times of Melting Horizons
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Abstract
This chapter analyzes documentation on traditional ecological knowledge and questions widespread interviews in filmic documentations against the background of the “Inuit way of knowing.” The underlying concepts of mythological worldviews and the effects of environmental changes are discussed within the context of Inuit social mores and the cultural Weltbild. Taking as our point of departure the alarming views denouncing global warming by Inuit Elders from Resolute Bay in 2010, we will examine their old, deeply felt persuasion that the sun might shine longer and more intensely because Earth’s axis had shifted. This obviously came from an understanding of larger contexts, driven by traditional cosmological views and star lore. It was based on knowledge and experience that in former days made subsistence predictable. Nowadays these concepts find less support due to changes in environments and lifestyles, whereby traditional knowledge meets adaptive strategies in subsistence hunting and resource use. At the time, the living conditions of the Inuit were shaped by infinite vastness. The vaulted sky, boundless ice and boundless waters, characteristic environmental markings, and the sounds of untamed and animated nature produced knowledge, spirituality, and mythological spaces. This chapter will set out to explore to what extent this state of affairs has been adjusted to the Inuit’s new living conditions. How are myth and traditional ecological knowledge being reshaped by virtue of their interaction with current global threats and challenges?
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.022 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".