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Cross-cultural Contact: Teodor's Journey Across Continents

2020· dissertation· W7132990970 on OpenAlexaff
Paula Liliana Karger

Bibliographic record

VenueTSpace · 2020
Typedissertation
Language
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLatin American history and culture
Canadian institutionsInternational Centre for Comparative Criminology
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNegotiationArabicReading (process)Order (exchange)AlterityCultural studiesPoint (geometry)
DOInot available

Abstract

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Using as its focal point the many renditions of the story of a maiden who engages in and wins a series of debates, this dissertation examines the processes involved in the translatio of information and the negotiation of cultural contact. Each telling of the story, from the thirteenth-century Castilian versions that emerged from Arabic predecessors to the Yucatec Mayan texts that were produced between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, captures a moment in the complex relationships that formed in and characterised the spaces of contact from which the texts emerged. Comparing the renditions of the story not only reveals differences and similarities between the cultures and their positions with respect to each other, but also differences and similarities in the ways in which they navigated cultural exchange. The first chapter draws tools from translation/adaptation studies and postcolonial theory in order develop a framework from which to conduct this comparison, linking translatio studii and translatio potestatis. The Castilian stories of the maiden are the primary subjects of the second chapter; in part due to the historically close relationship between Castile and its Islamicate neighbours as well as the former’s aspiration to exceed the latter’s international cultural standing, the Castilian stories reveal a process of information transfer that sought to obscure the story’s origins. In contrast, the Yucatec Mayan stories, the subjects of the third chapter, contain modifications meant to accommodate local audiences, but also juxtapose material, highlighting connections between concepts and words of diverse origins. The differences in the approaches to the telling of the maiden’s story are a result of local traditions and methodologies as well as contemporary circumstances—unlike Islamdom and Castile, where each controlled certain regions, the Spanish who first introduced the story to the Maya dominated Yucatán politically and culturally, positioning Maya knowledge-keepers as intermediaries between Spanish and Maya systems. The many versions of the maiden’s story encapsulate and exemplify various practices of knowledge transfer, practices that offer refreshing possibilities for present-day cross-cultural communication. Usando como punto de base las muchas interpretaciones de la historia de la doncella que participa y gana en una serie de debates, esta tesis examina los procesos involucrados en la translatio de información y la negociación de contacto cultural. Cada narración de la historia, desde las versiones castellanas del siglo XIII que emergieron de predecesores árabes hasta los textos mayas yucatecas producidos entre los siglos XVI y XIX, capta el momento en las complejas relaciones que se formaron y que caracterizaron los espacios de contacto en los cuales transitaban los textos. La comparación de las versiones de la historia no sólo revela diferencias y similitudes entre las culturas y su postura con respecto una de la otra, sino también las diferencias y similitudes en las formas en las que manejaron el intercambio cultural. A fin de crear un marco para hacer esta comparación, el primer capítulo utiliza herramientas basadas en estudios de traducción/adaptación y de teoría pos-colonial, conectando translatio studii y translatio potestatis. Los cuentos castellanos de la doncella son los temas principales del segundo capítulo; en parte debido a la relación históricamente cercana entre Castilla y sus vecinos islámicos y también por el deseo de Castilla de superar el prestigio cultural internacional de esos vecinos, los cuentos castellanos revelan un proceso de transferencia de información que intentaba ocultar el origen de la historia. Por el contrario, los cuentos maya yucatecas, el tema del tercer capítulo, contienen modificaciones que procuraban tomar en consideración al público local, pero también yuxtaponen información, subrayando las conexiones entre conceptos y entre palabras de diversos orígenes. Las diferencias en los métodos de la narración del cuento de la doncella resultan de las tradiciones y las metodologías locales, así como también de las circunstancias del momento—a diferencia de las regiones islámicas y de Castilla, donde cada uno controlaba ciertas regiones, los españoles que primero introdujeron el cuento en el Yucatán dominaron políticamente y culturalmente a los mayas, poniendo a los “guardadores de conocimiento” mayas como intermediarios entre los sistemas españoles y los mayas. Las muchas versiones del cuento de la doncella resumen y ejemplifican las varias maneras de transferencia de conocimiento, maneras que ofrecen nuevas posibilidades para la comunicación intercultural de hoy en día.

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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)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
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: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.030
Threshold uncertainty score0.039

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0300.011
Scholarly communication0.0120.007
Open science0.0010.013
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.001

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 head0.063
GPT teacher head0.398
Teacher spread0.335 · 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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