Reframing the polar exploration narrative: Inuit resilience and ecological transformations in the early 20th century North American Arctic
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Abstract
The late polar exploration period—spanning from the 1890s to the 1930s—was categorised as European presence in indigenous lands, Inuit cultural decline, and ecological changes in the North American Arctic. Existing scholarship has continuously focused on European interactions with Inuit communities to study why they experienced shifts in their relationship with the natural environment following polar exploration. This thesis will thus move beyond the overemphasis on European influences in Arctic environmental historiography. Instead, it offers an interdisciplinary study of how different Inuit communities across the region responded to ecological, cultural and religious shifts resulting from two interconnected events in North American polar exploration history—the decline in commercial whaling and the introduction of reindeer herding. By centring the Inuit communities in the polar exploration narrative, this thesis acknowledges the rising importance of Inuit cultural preservation. It builds upon current scholarship on Inuit cultural resilience by using an environmental anthropological framework to highlight the historical interplay between ecology, culture, and religion in the human-nature relationship. Therefore, by reframing the polar exploration narrative, this thesis links the Inuit environmental ties during the late polar exploration to broader themes of economic development, cultural resilience, and religious syncretism from the 1890s to the 1930s.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".