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Record W80959576 · doi:10.3138/cjh.40.1.45

“The Fundamental Things”: Camp Fire Girls and Authenticity, 1910-20

2005· article· en· W80959576 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Mary McCallum

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of History · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicRace, History, and American Society
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Manitoba
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFemininityAppropriationModernityIndustrialisationUrbanizationGender studiesSociologySummer campAestheticsModernization theoryPolitical scienceArtLawEconomic growthEthnology

Abstract

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Camp Fire Girls was a popular and influential girls’ group noteworthy for its celebration, appropriation, and fabrication of Native lore. This paper will explore how and why Camp Fire Girls played Indian in the movement’s inaugural decade (1910 to 1920). It will argue that Camp Fire Girls was an anti-modernist response to cultural and social anxieties that industrialization, urbanization, and modern technology were making youth weak, women abandon the home, and Americans more generally forsake the wholesome countryside for myriad immoral influences of cities. It will also show that Camp Fire Girls played Indian in order to improve on, rather than escape from, modernity. Indian play reinforced in Camp Fire Girls a sense of their superiority as a more evolved race, made housework appealing to women, and taught girls how to participate in an urban world in ways that did not challenge the integrity of the “fundamental things”: their femininity, whiteness, and American character.

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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)0.003
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: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.046
Threshold uncertainty score0.091

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0350.022
Scholarly communication0.0060.004
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0020.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.001

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 head0.015
GPT teacher head0.262
Teacher spread0.247 · 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 designQualitative
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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