The Dance of Transformation: Exploring embodied space, sacredness and possession in Brekete
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Using ethnographic methods with insights gleaned from open-ended interviews and participant observation, this paper interrogates possession rituals in Brekete as a special modality of human behavior and examines the notion of sacred space and how the construct of sacred space shapes the perception of materiality, agency and territorialism. It further explores transformative encounters to determine the meaning of the physicality of dance in the creation of “communitas” (Turner, [1967] 1969) and wellbeing. Religious ritual practices are understood as expressive behavior that communicates meaning, notably about social structure, and the conscious vis-à-vis unconscious processes underlying perception, representation and performance of diverse types of actions coded in symbolic forms. In this perspective, ritual is simply not a set of distinct acts, but rather, ritual is a way of acting (Bell, 1990) and, consequently, the job of the ethnographer is to acquire the interpretational knowledge necessary to analyze the network of languages inherent in this apparently ‘irrational’ action.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".