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Record W4411454270 · doi:10.1484/j.food.5.145071

Food and Body in Colonial Contexts: An Introduction

2025· article· en· W4411454270 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Olga Trufanova, Julia Herzberg

Bibliographic record

VenueFood and History · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicColonialism, slavery, and trade
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsColonialismHistoryArchaeology

Abstract

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Since the start of modern colonialism at the end of the fifteenth century, concerns about food accompanied conquistadors in any “discovered” part of the world. While being fundamental for the colonizer’s physical well-being and survival, food was an integral part of their cultural identity and political authority in the territories that, so went a typical claim, were inhabited by savage and uncivilized Indigenous peoples. Yet, these peoples, be that the Inuit of Alaska, the Haudenosaunee of North America or Native inhabitants of Indian Tranquebar, had their own food cultures and modes of subsistence that suited their living environments. The present issue explores colonial food encounters in different parts of the world, from North America and India to Zambia and Siberia, during the early modern period. The present article offers an overview of the rich scholarly literature on food and colonialism and situates the contributions within this growing research area.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.029

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.004
Science and technology studies0.0040.010
Scholarly communication0.0060.006
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.001

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 head0.014
GPT teacher head0.262
Teacher spread0.248 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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