This paper examines LLM deployment through African lenses that engage the continent’s complex social,...
Tag: Ethiopia
Mannequins on My Mind: Addis Ababa and the Globalized Economy
You’ve probably been there—in a security line at Laguardia airport, still fuzzy with jet lag. I stood in one recently—just a few days after returning from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia—and certain quotidian details of life in the US were still jumping out in shocking relief. In front of me were two women...
Where Were You During Covid-19? An Ethnographic Lens on Local Life in a Global Pandemic
Where were you during Covid-19? The question seems destined to become a standard conversation piece at future get-togethers. For professional anthropologists and ethnographers, we can also add in questions about what was looked at, listened to, thought about, done and imagined for the future....