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Record W4402941381 · doi:10.3828/hgr.2024.24

Child sharing in the Inuit subsistence system

2023· article· en· W4402941381 on OpenAlex
Keiichi Omura

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Bibliographic record

VenueHunter Gatherer Research · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicNeuroendocrine regulation and behavior
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSubsistence agricultureGeographyArchaeologyAgriculture

Abstract

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This article aims to analyse how Inuit extended families engage in collaborative childcare and rearing practices within the framework of their subsistence system. The study demonstrates that child sharing through care and rearing is crucial for continually generating an extended family through a cyclical drive of the subsistence system. First, I analyse childcare and upbringing in Inuit extended family by reviewing previous Inuit ethnographies and my participant observation in Kugaaruk, Nunavut, Canada, an off-road Inuit village in the Central Arctic. The data show that 1) child adoption is prevalent in nuclear families within an extended family, with nearly every nuclear family having at least one adopted child, which is similar to a stepfamily when one of the parents is not genetically related to the child; 2) there are no discernible differences in the emotional and behavioural attitudes of parents and their relatives toward their biological offsprings and adopted children; 3) the adult members of extended family collaboratively rear their children, facilitating their social and moral development and instructing them in survival skills, whereas parents bear the primary responsibility for childcare, including providing food, basic needs, protection and love. Finally, the collaborative childcare and rearing practices are analysed within the subsistence system, demonstrating that child sharing through adoption and cooperative childcare can be seen as an outcome of the subsistence system, particularly food-sharing practices, which play a pivotal role in the system. Then, based on this analysis, I show that sharing practices of food and children play a crucial role in the process of continually generating their world known as nuna (land), the extended family embedded therein, and the trust relationships among its members.

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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 categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.219
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.005

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 head0.229
GPT teacher head0.467
Teacher spread0.238 · 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