Daniel Miller
@DannyAnth
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Daniel Miller, anthropologist teaching material culture, digital anthropology and stuff.
London
Joined July 2009
Many congratulations to Haichao Wang for her excellent PhD on the impact of digital technologies on the Muslim Hui population of Xi'An China. Delighted also that Haichao is currently a lecturer in our department.
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RT @MukulikaB: In the latest episode of @india_briefing we discuss the iconic modern garment of India - the sari and the women who wear it…
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Cooking for our monthly drop in for refugees and asylum seekers reminded me of Marianne Faithfull's powerful song Broken English. If you don't know it, give it a listen, in memory of her.
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My student showed me yesterday that DeepSeek is rather more complimentary about me and my work than ChatGPT. You are welcome to draw whatever conclusion you like from that.
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At last, there are some scientists prepared to speak out against all the rubbish that is constantly being published about the impact of social media.
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The film A Real Pain shows just why it is so important to ponder and seek direction, especially for those questions that are ultimately unanswerable. And it's fun.
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Really enjoying the new album from Fontaines D.C. One of the band (Grian) comes from "Cuan", of course.
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Here are some tips for the year:- Film - My Favourite Cake. Music - St Vincent, Todos Nacen Gritando. Non-fiction - William Dalrymple, The Golden Road. Fiction - Olga Tokarczuk, Drive your plough over the bones of the dead.
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My latest publication - What Just Happened? Ethnography as Audit A conclusion to a special issue of Anthropology and Medicine called Digital Technologies and the Future of Health: Aspirations, Care and Data. Ed. Claudia Lang It can be found at
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So very sad to learn of the death of Thomas Hylland Eriksen, a friend and one of the finest anthropologists of his generation. Small Places Large Issues was by far the discipline's best textbook, and there were many other important ethnographic studies. I will really miss him.
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BBC Radio 4 just broadcast a 5-minute interview with me defending the smartphone as being more than just a distraction. I am the second half of the broadcast which you can find at -
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Strongly recommend William Dalyrmple's latest The Golden Road. An alternative and convincing history of the old world from an India-centric perspective.
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RT @anthroencyclo: Ageing with smartphones in Urban China! Sounds fascinating. Check out this new review by Xinru Su 📖 #anthropology #bookr…
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Off to Oxford today to present a talk based on our almost completed book on Understanding China through Digital Anthropology, alongside the authors of several of the chapters.
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My own paper in our new book concerns the under-researched impact of googling for health information. This includes patient-doctor relations and the surprising way it exacerbates class differences. See - An Anthropological Approach to mHealth
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New book out today:- An Anthropological Approach to mHealth. A free download from With many examples of how ethnographic research can be turned into a means for improving the welfare of populations around the world
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RT @OxDEG: Talks take place from 3.30-5pm on Mondays. All talks will be conducted remotely, apart from Professor @DannyAnth's Hybrid event…
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Highly recommend a rather wonderful film. My Favourite Cake. In the Iranian tradition of filmmaking, it is perhaps even better than its predecessors in the fine mix of poignancy, humour, acting and in this case respect for older people.
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I hadn't looked for quite a while. But just found that the downloads for our Why We Post book series have now passed one million, eight hundred thousand. Not bad for a bunch of anthropology monographs
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