Seasonal Affective Order: Rhythmanalysis and Mesology of Circumpolar Religion
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Abstract
It has long been acknowledged that in Inuit society, there exists an alternation or rhythm between an intense collective religious life in the winter and a comparatively profane summer marked by smaller scale social encounters. In this way, changes in the natural world are bound together with alterations in social and affective life. This relationship between natural conditions and social-cultural distributions is discussed in Marcel Mauss and Henri Beuchat’s classic study of seasonal variations among the Inuit. Using the ethnographic material available to them, Mauss and Beuchat demonstrate a strong connection, but not a causal one, between the extreme natural seasonal changes and the patterns of social and religious circumpolar life. Focusing in particular on how this mediation between the space-time of a community and its material substratum manifests itself in religious life, this paper offers some slight revisions to Mauss and Beuchat’s idea of social morphology, by reconsidering it in light of more recent ethnographic and historical literature, on the one hand, and the theoretical work of Henri Lefebvre and Augustin Berque, on the other. Taken together, Lefebvre and Berque model a way of thinking about how physical changes in the environment take on meaning and affective tonalities for communities and individuals.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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.
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