"Flatten the enemy", "Fighting with Property, "Interest-Bearing Investments": A consideration of Potlatch interpretations with Indigenous views of the gifting ceremony
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Presented at the Canadian Anthropological Society/La Societe Canadienne d'Anthropologie (CASCA) conference, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba (May, 2018).\n\nThe potlatch is a multifaceted institution of Northwest Coast lifeways. Angelbeck, presents how the weight of interpretations and discussions about this renowned ceremony often can favour those of the lavish gift-giving demonstrations of ‘conspicuous consumption’, or warfare through gifting. Many have emphasized these as “interest-bearing investments” to produce greater future returns. Such interpretations concentrate on the role of self-interest. He highlights, how such accounts are often in contrast to how Northwest Coast peoples speak of potlatches, whereby these are considered positive ceremonies of celebration, public accounting and witnessing, and community building. The narrow and limited historical context for many initial evaluations of the potlatch as affected by colonial influences, including fur trade wealth, mercantilism, and capitalism will be highlighted. The intent is to allow us to better convey and contextualize potlatch dynamics and alliances between groups both now, as well as, in the past.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".