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.
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