Suicide Through Magical Realism: How Did the Colombian Amazons Soothe the Epidemic of the Ropes?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
How can we understand suicide and the ways communities address it when neither the word “suicide” nor the anatomical-physiological body exists in their languages and worldviews? From modernity and its colonial power, this has entailed an epistemic imposition that names as suicide what is not, intervenes upon a nonexistent body, and delegitimizes knowledges outside Eurocentric suicidology. Here, I seek to unsettle the epistemic violence of modernity and its coloniality in order to listen, learn, and sentipensar (feel-think) other corporealities and relationships with human and nonhuman suffering that invoke el mal morir, or what is called the “epidemic of the ropes” in the Colombian Amazon. I propose re-thinking and re-sensing other ways of addressing suffering, life, and death beyond Eurocentrism. I discuss suicide through the real-magical and the Andean-Amazonian sentipensar of indigenized communities that soothed this epidemic through ancestral knowledges.
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| 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.
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".