Polyandry, ‘pollution’, ‘prostitution’: the problems of eurocentrism and androcentrism in Polynesian studies
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Since the 1950s, publications and research in Pacific history have concentrated almost exclusively on the impact of western products, peoples, ideologies and economic practices on the island world. Serious and successful attempts have been made to present islanders as rational active agents in the processes of contact and subsequent change, but usually they have been perceived as homogeneous populations. Differential responses, initiatives or adaptations from the various groups within island societies, or between male and female, have rarely been recognised let alone studied (Ralston, 1985). In Polynesia the islanders most likely to come in contact with foreigners were male chiefs, and too frequently histories of contact have been written as if the experiences of these chiefs were typical of all. Like so many other areas of academic discourse, Polynesian history has been gender-blind, referring specifically to women only when their presence and ‘scandalous’ behaviour (for example flocking on board foreign vessels seeking sexual liaisons) exposed them to misinformed and judgmental comment and stereotyping.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.046 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".