{"title":"Appropriation, Indigenous knowledge, and generative AI","authors":"Charles Menzies","doi":"10.1111/amet.70081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70081","url":null,"abstract":"This commentary examines the relationship between First Nations’ knowledge, AI, and cultural appropriation from the perspective of an Indigenous scholar and journal editor. The author highlights the potential conflicts between who controls AI and First Nations sovereignty. For this author, the question of who controls a technology is more important than its inherent nature.","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147695417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AI as guru or conjurer?","authors":"Jaap Timmer, Anna‐Karina Hermkens","doi":"10.1111/amet.70083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70083","url":null,"abstract":"This commentary examines how artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes scholarly authorship through Fredrik Barth's figures of the guru and the conjurer. The guru instructs within moral and scholarly frameworks, while the conjurer mystifies through spectacle. AI embodies both roles: promoted by publishers like Wiley as a guru offering clarity and scope, it performs more like a conjurer, producing dazzling outputs that obscure their origins and evade critical debate. Examining an AI‐generated submission to <jats:italic>The Australian Journal of Anthropology</jats:italic> ( <jats:italic>TAJA</jats:italic> ), we use these figures as heuristic tools to highlight contrasting modes of knowledge transmission. By collapsing them, AI creates a new opposition, guru‐conjurer versus educator, in which authority rests on performance rather than reflexive pedagogy, and the desire for guidance eclipses critical engagement. Such systems bypass the intellectual struggle with concepts central to scholarship. When normalized by major publishers, AI‐driven spectacle reshapes expectations of authorship, expertise, and knowledge itself.","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147695418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward Indigenous fire relations in California","authors":"Ghaleb Attrache, Tony Marks‐Block","doi":"10.1111/amet.70074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70074","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147518780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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