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Record W4388908146 · doi:10.53288/0404.1.19

Tupilaq (In the Shadow of Solarity)

2023· book-chapter· en· W4388908146 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenuePunctum Books · 2023
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicIndigenous Studies and Ecology
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
FundersRice University
KeywordsCircumpolar starShadow (psychology)Endocentric and exocentricReading (process)Meaning (existential)GeographyArchaeologyHistoryGeologyEpistemologyPhilosophyLinguistics

Abstract

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This chapter considers “solarity” as an elemental agent that shapes the cultural regimes of the circumpolar North. I discuss how solar energy weathers the artifacts of the Thule people, the ancestors of the contemporary Inuit. The sun draws out the oils and bleaches the surfaces of Thule remains, yielding them up for use in the production of tools, commodities and archaeological objects of study. But where this process might be understood to neutralize the meaning of Thule artifacts, priming them for scientific study, I suggest otherwise. Following the lead of Inuit mythology, I locate solarity in its diurnal and seasonal interplay with other irreducible elements, as these overlap, transgress and withdraw from one another. This trajectory counteracts the technoscientific perspective at work in environmental archaeology, that would position cultural changes (from the Thule to the Inuit, specifically) as a passive adaptation to natural change. By contrast, I position solarity as a force that vitalizes material culture, its capacity to cast shadows and yield an account of artifacts beyond positivist frames. The insights of solarity come by way of reading its interaction with the moon, the night, with bone and sinew, with land and water, tools and carvings, climate changes, animal migrations, and the forced displacement of the circumpolar Inuit.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.805
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.002

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.

Opus teacher head0.101
GPT teacher head0.355
Teacher spread0.254 · 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