Review Of "The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories" By J. Shea Murphy
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Abstract
Coeditor (with Ellen Goellner) of Bodies of the Text (CH, Oct'95, 33-0847), Shea Murphy (Univ. of California, Riverside) uses written and choreographed texts, oral histories, and interviews to investigate ways dance documented and supported Native American histories and practices from the late 19th century to the present. Beginning with an exploration of 19th-century US and Canadian Native performances and federal responses to--and restrictions of--them, the author demonstrates the contradiction between efforts to curtail authentic ritual dances and the simultaneous construction, by Europeans and Euro-Americans, of an imagined concert-stage Indian. She interrogates how works by modern dance pioneers (Ted Shawn, Martha Graham, Lester Horton) accessed Native American archetypes and beliefs for choreographic inspiration. The book concludes with an examination of ways various Native artists in Canada and the US draw on traditional and contemporary dance vocabularies and structures, creating concert choreography that comments on cultural connections and addresses social/political concerns. Enriching a dialogue begun by Jamaka Highwater's Ritual of the Wind (1977) and Native American Dance: Ceremonies and Social Traditions, ed. by Charlotte Heth (CH, Jul'93, 30-6248), this major work is marked by fluid analysis and rigorous research. It includes extensive endnotes and some 30 black-and-white photographs. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".