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      Last Words

      Paul Kockelman

      A critical exegesis of large language models, like ChatGPT, and recent advances in artificial intelligence.

      If speech has long been an emblem of the human species, then talking machines seem…

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      The Chicken and the Quetzal: Incommensurate Ontologies and Portable Values in Guatemala’s Cloud Forest

      Paul Kockelman

      In The Chicken and the Quetzal Paul Kockelman tells the cultural history of a village in Guatemala’s highland cloud forests and its relation to conservation movements and eco-tourism to create…

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      Kinds of Value - An Experiment in Modal Anthropology

      Paul Kockelman

      In this slim volume, anthropologist Paul Kockelman showcases, reworks, and extends some of the core resources anthropologists and like-minded scholars have developed for thinking about value. Rather than theorize value…

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      The Chicken and the Quetzal: Incommensurate Ontologies and Portable Values in Guatemala’s Cloud Forest

      Paul Kockelman

      In The Chicken and the Quetzal Paul Kockelman tells the cultural history of a village in Guatemala’s highland cloud forests and its relation to conservation movements and eco-tourism to create…

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      The Art of Interpretation in the Age of Computation

      Paul Kockelman (Yale University)

      The Art of Interpretation is about media, mediation, and meaning. It focuses on a set of interrelated transformations whereby seemingly human-specific modes of meaning become automated by machines, formatted by…

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      The Anthropology of Intensity: Language, Culture, and Environment

      Paul Kockelman (Yale University, Connecticut)

      Focusing on the last twenty years of life in a small Mayan village, this pioneering book offers a natural history of intensity in the age of the Anthropocene. It is…

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      The Anthropology of Intensity: Language, Culture, and Environment

      Paul Kockelman (Yale University, Connecticut)

      Focusing on the last twenty years of life in a small Mayan village, this pioneering book offers a natural history of intensity in the age of the Anthropocene. It is…

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      Language, Culture, and Mind: Natural Constructions and Social Kinds

      Paul Kockelman (Barnard College, Columbia University)

      Based on fieldwork carried out in a Mayan village in Guatemala, this book examines local understandings of mind through the lens of language and culture. It will be of interest…

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      Language, Culture, and Mind: Natural Constructions and Social Kinds

      Paul Kockelman (Barnard College, Columbia University)

      Based on fieldwork carried out in a Mayan village in Guatemala, this book examines local understandings of mind through the lens of language and culture. It will be of interest…

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      Distributed Agency

      This book presents the latest thinking on the distributed nature of agency: its nature, its causes, its consequences. The book opens up fundamental questions about human agency, and offer answers…

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      Distributed Agency

      This book presents the latest thinking on the distributed nature of agency: its nature, its causes, its consequences. The book opens up fundamental questions about human agency, and offer answers…

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      Agent, Person, Subject, Self: A Theory of Ontology, Interaction, and Infrastructure

      Paul Kockelman (Associate Professor of Anthropology, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College and Columbia University)

      This books offers a naturalistic and critical theory of signs, minds, and meaning-in-the-world.

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      The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology

      The field of linguistic anthropology looks at human uniqueness and diversity through the lens of language, our species’ special combination of art and instinct. This state-of-the-field survey covers a wide…

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      The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology

      The field of linguistic anthropology looks at human uniqueness and diversity through the lens of language, our species’ special combination of art and instinct. This state-of-the-field survey covers a wide…

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