Tag: 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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Stevens (W), Wagner (R), and clotting (Verran, H).
The man bent over his guitar, a shearsman of sorts. The day was green. They said, “You have a blue guitar. You do not play things as they are.” The...
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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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Inaugurating a monastery
This last Saturday, 19th Sept. 2018, I was lucky to be part of the inauguration of a new Buddhist vihāra here in Chittagong. I was invited by Dr. Ananda Vikas...
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Beacons
My suspicion, before coming to Chittagong, was that it would have a vigorous and well-informed public culture. That suspicious was based on two romanticised scraps of knowledge. First, when I...