1 Symposium ‘Healing and Spirituality’
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT. In the context of a symposium on Healing and Spirituality, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands (2007), the author was invited to put a number of questions before Edith Turner. This was to elucidate her sustained quest for an experiential anthropology and for the vindication, within anthropology and the North Atlantic region at large, of peripheral spirit traditions, such as (from her own fieldwork) those of N. Alaskan Inuit and the Ndembu of Zambia. The author’s questions seek to situate Edith Turner’s work in context, including the work of her late husband Victor Turner. In addi-tion to the author’s sympathy for experiential anthropology and his own long-standing practice as an African spirit medium, he draws on intercultural philosophy and long-range comparative research into symbolism and mythology in order to critically adduce perspectives that may elucidate, complement or correct Edith Turner’s. Topics covered include: the reliability of eye witness accounts of the para-normal; the relation between experiential and mainstream anthropology; the critique of ‘going native’ as a research strategy; the critique of experiental anthropology’s claims of producing valid knowledge through vicarious experience; the positioning of anthropology as mediating between peripheral tradi-tions and the North Atlantic region; can we claim that peripheral spirit traditions constitute both useful and valid knowledge?; an elaborate attempt to situate peripheral spirit traditions (and especially the
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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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.034 | 0.004 |
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".