Bibliographic record
Abstract
Jennifer Reid, Finding Kluskap: A Journey into Mi'kmaw Myth. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013.136 pages. ISBN 978-0271-06068-2. $64.95 USD hardcover.As author herself admits, this is difficult book to categorize. First of all, its brevity should not be interpreted to suggest that it is in any way cursory or lacking depth and comprehensiveness of analysis. Second, it is part of series sponsored by Institute for Signifying Scriptures at Claremont Graduate University. According to their promotional material, books in this series focus on the textures, signs, material products, practices, orientations, politics, and power issues associated with sociocultural phenomenon of invention and engagement of scriptures. Third, book is informed by journey motif, one that captures both journey of Kluskap, as his mythic identity and stories attached to it evolve to reflect current conditions, and that of author, as scholar and as friend of Mi'kmaq.Reid recounts that project started when she was asked to be part of panel discussion in celebration of fortieth anniversary of publication of Charles Long's Alpha: The Myths of Creation (George Braziller, 1963). What initially looked like straightforward exercise in examining mythic hero Kluskap in light of Long's emphasis on journeys, turned into near decade long pilgrimage. For her research, Reid not only consulted various accounts of Kluskap myths that had been recorded over years, she also called upon her contacts in Mi'kmaw communities to provide her with current stories. While working through this exercise Reid discovered that she was hearing about everything except Kluskap, from Integrative Science program at Cape Breton University, through demise of oyster farming in Bras d'Or Lakes due to an invasive parasite, to lasting impact of residential school experience. What she concluded from her efforts was that myth is not just means of gaining insight into sacred history of people, but that it can also serve as a medium of orientation in modem world (26).Taking more detailed look at content of recorded myths about Kluskap and new stories she was hearing, Reid compares this material with information on origin, reception and application of treaties in this same period. Her analysis suggests that myths reflect sacred discourse through which encounter of Mi'kmaq with non-Native peoples and with land was and is both remembered and legitimized.At heart of book is an exploration of Saint Anne, grandmother of Jesus and patron saint of Mi'kmaw people, whose annual celebration takes place on July 27th at Potlotek (Chapel Island), oldest Catholic mission in Canada. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".