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Record W7125383880 · doi:10.7202/1122774ar

"These Poor Creatures... Like Ourselves"

2023· article· en· W7125383880 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
Mick Stevens

Bibliographic record

VenueNewfoundland and Labrador Studies · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicTravel Writing and Literature
Canadian institutionsMemorial University of Newfoundland
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDepictionTravel writingIndigenousNarrative

Abstract

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Travel narratives, while complex and often contradictory, offer a tool for historians and cultural critics to explore the past and present of localized imperial peripheries and of the larger empires they are a part of. This author uses the travel writing of R.L. Dashwood, W.R. Kennedy, and J.G. Millais to discuss how European sport-hunting elites imagined Newfoundland and its inhabitants, and how they described them to readers throughout the empire. Through the exaggerations and fallacies of travel writers, who foregrounded their own ruggedness, manliness and self-sufficiency, are Indigenous guides, working-class settlers, and women who challenge established narratives in Newfoundland’s history, and without whom the travel writers could never have succeeded. The author investigates the depiction of these groups of Newfoundland residents in European travel writing to explore how their identities were shaped and reshaped in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century, and calls for further re-examination of these groups as part of Newfoundland's historical narrative.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.857
Threshold uncertainty score0.284

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0160.033
Scholarly communication0.0060.004
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0010.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.002

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.

Opus teacher head0.045
GPT teacher head0.281
Teacher spread0.236 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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