Category: Anthropology
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What is my dog’s religion: exposing Eurocentric biases in OpenAI models.
When I teach courses on anthropology of religion, I like to start by asking students if they have a dog. This is more fun than asking if they have a...
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A certain kind of joke.
I learned another joke from my son Hugh this morning, and it seems to me structurally similar to one of my favourite jokes. In this short post, I will give...
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Affordances, other-than-human kin, and neurodiversity
In our household, there are people, some with ASD, and there is a very old dog. I don’t have time to work this up into a proper research paper: the...
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Indigenous Picnic in the Korean Export Zone
Before it drifts too far into the past, I want to record here an extraordinary picnic and its aftermath. My colleague Dr. Ananda Vikas Chakma in the history faculty at...
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One of those words that expresses something
Okay, so there are tons of posts about words in Japanese or Finnish, but in Bangla there is ‘মেঠোপথ’ meṭhopoth: A path running through an open field formed by frequent movement...