the link to our special issue on Language Machines is online! find our introduction (why we need linguistic anthropology to understand LLMs) & the first batch of articles here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
if you have something to contribute, please contact us!
Current Anthropology
It's National Cat Lovers' Month! This article from Current Anthropology examines the evolution of the cat-human relationship and how cats' ability to adapt has allowed them to thrive. Read more here: https://ow.ly/PWSC50Xm6qA
Errol le Cain's beautiful image for 'the Shoes that were Danced to Pieces' with the princesses in fabulous ball gowns under a sickle moon and stars over a pillared hall with a glittering forest beyond
Our last RAG session before Xmas!
Everybody welcome LIVE and ZOOM
🌖 Tues Dec 9 🌗18:30 (London UTC)
'A Xmas Fairytale: The Shoes that were Danced to Pieces'
Chris Knight
LIVE Daryll Forde Room 230, 2nd Floor UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
We cordially invite you to the workshop “Transnational Entanglements of Racial Anthropology: History and Legacy”, which will take place in Berlin and online on September 11-13, 2025.
See program, more information and online attendance links in our institute’s website (link in bio).
My kittens broke the irises while playing in the flower bed, so here's a spontaneous bouquet. That's how colourful we should be waiting for the Eurovision broadcast. Even if it was the result of a mess.
maybe only newborn kittens can save this day
East European breakfast
Spring has sprung in spite of many things
Remains of aristocratic baroque in the Hungarian countryside
A winter without snow, but with inflation
A light Eastern European dinner. May the force be with us.
Yes it might need some disinfection.
However it works, I hope it protects him!
R.I.P. Thomas Hylland Eriksen.
Multispecies crossroads. Walk as fast as you can, and hope you avoid cars from the side and pigeon's shit from above. Bucharest is an interesting place.
spectrum of healthy fats
Just sheep 🐏🐑🐏🐑🐏🐑 from my Hungarian village, most of them will be sold and sent to Italy. This is how it's been here for more than a century. Even during socialist times they maintained this practice.
Despite inflation, Hungary is still a place where you can buy tasty and cheap food. On workdays come to any farmers' market around 2 pm or later, and you can have lunch with a discount, or an oversized portion for the normal price. This goose soup and cottage cheese pasta cost me around 7 dollars.
