DIGITAL ANTHROPOLOGY seminar

Digital Anthropology is rooted in the strong currents of Digital Humanities. Digital Anthropology is based on performing (animating) ideas and knowledge on computational media.  The aim is to better describe and understand relationships between people, information and knowledge in the past, present and future.  In this workshop examples will be presented and discussed. General topics include history and development, the role of critical theory, metaphysics and philosophy, the relationship between culture and cognition, and knowledge as the interface between people and the world. We will look at examples relating how Digital Anthropology has helped transform our understanding of kinship studies (from biology to ideational constructions), knowledge representation (static to dynamic), ethnographic enquiry ('data mining'), and the development of social networks, past, present and future.