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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 OpenAlex
Mary McCallum

Why this work is in the frame

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.

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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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.227
Threshold uncertainty score0.795

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

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