Bibliographic record
Abstract
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 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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| 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".