Between presence and absence: signature, signature style and agency of the kalamkari makers
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Does the signature of an artisan or the signature style of a collective or individual practice fully account for the agency of their makers? An in-depth investigation of this issue, drawing on the theorisation of agency and identity, is presented while interpreting three kalamkari textiles of Southeastern India: a rare eighteenth-century kalamkari featuring an inscription in Telugu and two textiles by the late Nageswara Rao and Nandam Venkateswara Rao, Andhra Pradesh. A close visual analysis of the textiles is complemented by archival studies, interviews and insights drawn from dyeing processes to examine this issue. This study reflects on the interrelations between regional, collective and individual identities of the artisans and critically assesses the significance of artisanal processes to comprehend the makers’s merit. The interdependence of signature, signature style and the narratives of the kalamkari makers are set in conversation in this exploration to foreground artisanal voices and actions.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".