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Record W4414453487 · doi:10.1558/rosa.34059

The Village Hotel

2025· article· en· W4414453487 on OpenAlexaff
Sowparnika Balaswaminathan

Bibliographic record

VenueReligions of South Asia · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGlobal Maritime and Colonial Histories
Canadian institutionsConcordia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNexus (standard)NarrativeReligiosityCultural heritageOrder (exchange)Focus (optics)Bronze Age

Abstract

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In this paper, I explore the sacred Indian town of Swamimalai, Tamilnadu, as a nexus of religiosity, heritage and commerce by juxtaposing the narratives and aesthetics of these intersecting industries. To unravel these elements, I first examine how Swamimalai is constructed as a sacred place of belonging by two communities who consider it home—temple priests and traditional bronze sculptors. Then I use the case of INDeco Swamimalai, a luxury hotel by the village, to explore how narratives of sacred heritage are appropriated towards aestheticizing a landscape in order to deliver ‘authentic’ spiritual experiences to visitors. The notion of an ‘ideal village’ is instrumental in this production, wherein rural ecology, religiosity and heritage are commingled to furnish a Hindu-coded spiritual milieu. In essence, heritage actors recreate the village as an atemporal idyllic ecological escape from the profane, albeit carefully curated and controlled. As the parameters of this article do not allow for investigating how successful these efforts are, I focus primarily on the service providers.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.943
Threshold uncertainty score0.627

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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

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.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.268
Teacher spread0.261 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
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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