Anthropology of religion
Where Does the Sangha End? Ana Muñoz and the Boundaries of Care
Ana Muñoz reflects on Buddhism, feminism and coloniality. AIthropology Lab places her testimony in dialogue with ritual and the politics of dirt in Delhi.
AI · Anthropology · Culture
AIthropology Lab
Exploring AI anthropology: how artificial intelligence shapes culture and social life, through the lens of social and cultural anthropology.
Today's radar
Whose Knowledge? Indigenous Communities, Heritage and the Languages of Life
UNESCO, cultural heritage and Carbon-X: three cases showing how AI is reshaping knowledge and raising questions about who can interpret and govern it.
Events
Events
- Special activity · media and information literacy · OnlineOngoing
AIthropology FM: Thinking Critically with AI
- Seminar · HybridOngoing
From epistemic sovereignty to artificial intelligence
- Seminar · Hybrid
Dilemmas of contemporary culture
- Symposium · Hybrid
First Spanish Forum on Media and Information Literacy
- Seminar · Online
Assessment in Higher Education in the Era of AI and Digital Technologies
- Seminar · Online
Growing up in a connected world
- Congress · Hybrid
Critical thinking, ethics and generative AI at UNED
- Seminar · Online
The Role of Universities in Media and Information Literacy Education
This week: Thinking Critically with AI · 26–30 October
Academic analysis
Essays that explore questions of anthropology and artificial intelligence in depth, with rigour, argument and academic references.
NotesObservations and lines of inquiry
Readings, hypotheses, findings and cross-disciplinary connections in anthropology, artificial intelligence and contemporary culture.
RadarSignals of the week
Brief, curated readings on anthropology, AI, culture, technology and contemporary social life.
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Political Ecology and AI
‘Where applicable’: Territories, regions and donations at COP17 in Yerevan
The COP17 biodiversity summit begins the first global review of the Kunming–Montreal Framework. Three phrases under negotiation in Yerevan reveal who defines a territory, who counts as a region and who pays for genetic data, including data used by artificial intelligence.
Economic anthropology
The Moral Economy of a Bargain
The price of opportunities and the value of taking part in Chollometro
Linguistic anthropology and AI
A language is not an event
As UNESCO debates AI and living heritage, Indigenous voices from Mexico defend the collective right to decide which technologies to use for their languages.