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Webb Keane is the George Herbert Mead Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.\u00a0 He is affiliated with the Social-Cultural and the Linguistic subfields in the Anthropology Department, as well as the Interdisciplinary Program in Anthropology and History and the Center for Southeast<\/span> Asian Studies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/span>, he has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a visiting fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge University, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, twice a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and has taught at the School for Criticism and Theory, Cornell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His writings cover a range of topics in social and cultural theory and the ethnography and history of Southeast Asia. In particular, he is interested in semiotics and language; religion and ethics; moral economy; and the implications of AI and other new technologies. <\/span> His most recent book, Animals, Robots, Gods<\/em><\/a>, is about the ethical dilemmas posed by people’s interactions with entities that challenge the line between human and non-human, including cyborgs, certain animals, and AI chatbots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His regular undergraduate course offerings include Language and Culture; Anthropology of Religion; Exchange, Commodities, and Money; and Southeast Asia. His regular graduate seminars are the core course on anthropological theory (part 2), Semiotic Anthropology, Ethnographies of Ethics and Morality, Southeast Asia, and Ethnography beyond the human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To schedule an appointment, please go to this link<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the Introduction<\/a><\/em> to Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the review in the New York Times Book Review<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the review in the Times Literary Supplement<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n OpEd essay: Why we treat AI like a god” (July 27, 2023)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Other books:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ethical Life: Its Natural and Social Histories<\/em> <\/a> (2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Christian Moderns: Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter<\/span><\/i><\/a> (2007) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian<\/span> Society<\/span><\/a><\/i> (1997)<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n He participated in the collaborative venture Four Lectures on Ethics: Anthropological Perspectives<\/i> <\/a>which can be downloaded for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He is also a co-editor of<\/span> The Handbook of Material Culture<\/span><\/i> and an occasional contributor to Public Books<\/a>, Immanent Frame<\/i><\/span><\/a> <\/span>and Material World<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Webb Keane is the George Herbert Mead Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.\u00a0 He is affiliated with the Social-Cultural and the Linguistic subfields in the Anthropology Department, as well as the Interdisciplinary Program in Anthropology and History and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. A member of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/webbkeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/webbkeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/webbkeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/webbkeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/webbkeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":90,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/webbkeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/webbkeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/webbkeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"