REVIEWS • 205 APOSTLE TO THE INUIT: THE JOURNALS AND ETH- NOGRAPHIC NOTES OF EDMUND JAMES PECK, THE BAFFIN YEARS, 1894 – 1905. Edited by FRÉDÉRIC
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Abstract
£48.00. Throughout the 19th century, the Inuit of southern Qikiqtaaluk (Baffin Island) and, in particular, of Tinijjuarvik (Cumberland Sound), experienced waves of encounters and extended contacts with Europeans, Ameri-cans, and Euro-Canadians. In succession, explorers, whal-ers, scientists, and Christian missionaries entered the world of the aboriginal Inuit and altered their life: rapid cultural change touched upon their existential human-environ-mental interaction, economic activities, technology, and concepts of social organization and beliefs. It is fortunate that extensive written and visual documentation, albeit only from the outside, exists for this crucial period of exchange between the Inuit and outsiders to help us inter-pret the historical process of culture contact. The published literature on this Arctic region is fairly rich. Lately, additional and hitherto unpublished archival materials, such as diaries, field notes, and documents by individuals involved in the contact, have been made avail-able and complement the existing sources. Such materials, mainly from the period between the 1880s and the early 20th century, offer a detailed and deep insight into the fabric and structure of the relationships with the Inuit as seen by the ephemeral outsiders. The journals and letters by Franz Boas (Müller-Wille, 1998), whose studies in the region in 1883 – 84 culminated in his classic book The Central Eskimo (1888), serve as an example. Apostle to the to the excellent field and artifact photography, the precise mapping, and the finely drawn artifact depictions, there is a series of superb watercolor illustrations by Jørgen Mürhmann-Lund, which help bring to life many of the activities carried out by the Saqqaq inhabitants of Nipisat. Like other recent offerings in the Meddelelser om Grønland series, Nipisat—A Saqqaq Culture Site in
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.062 | 0.046 |
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".