Knowing the Day, Knowing the World: Engaging Amerindian Thought in Public Archaeology
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Abstract
Lesley Green and David Green, Knowing the Day, Knowing the World: Engaging Amerindian Thought in Public Archaeology. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013. 256 pages. ISBN 978-0-816-53037-3. $55 USD hardcover.Knowing the Day, Knowing the World is based on a decade of research among the Palikur-speaking Indigenous people of Arukwa, located in the central-northern region of Brazil. The book, in its resistance dominant forms of logic, challenges the intellectual heritage of disciplines such as anthropology and archaeology. Rather than allowing Palikur cosmology become translated through Western academic traditions, Lesley Green (Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cape Town) and David Green (videographer and fluent speaker of Palikur) demonstrate how Palikur notions of place, space and personhood exceed disciplinary categories and work assemble the world in ways that defy modern rationality. In this sense, the book more than achieves its aim show that different worlds are possible.Their first attempts initiate an archaeology project, intended document the region's history through the materiality of things, provoked them realize that the project was a product of modernist vision (10). This perception forced a critical intervention into how the founding dualisms of modernity - subject-object, nature-culture, space-time - inform ethnographic, archaeological, and interpretive frameworks for understanding the past in this particular region of Brazil. By instead allowing richly detailed narratives of Palikur storytellers lead the way, the book charts a new course through the move from understanding archaeology as studying the things left in the ground understanding archaeology as reading the tracks of the ancestors (7-8). This move elicits an unravelling of the assumptions about reality, embedded in modem practices, which delineate topological surfaces and map geometries of space. In their place emerge sophisticated modes of tracking relational flows among human and non-human bodies in Palikur cosmology, where to know is understand movement (166). Archaeology becomes reassembled according radically different regimes of truth as the flow of bodies in Palikur narratives are taken seriously for their capacity make worlds.The book's title expresses the way the authors come position themselves as researchers in Palikur lands. Lesley Green's early attempts define and document Palikur history were met with the accusation eg ka hayik hawkri (she doesn't know the day) - the implication being that she didn't know anything at all (16). Green takes this condescension as a generative opportunity and employs the Palikur concept of hayik hawkri (knowing the day/world) as a methodological tool for activating an ethics of presence that is in sync with local modes of being. …
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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 | 0.016 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.031 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.020 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".