Engaging with Postmodernist Anthropology: Potential and Prospects for Digital Anthropology in Vietnam

Abstract

Digital anthropology is the anthropological discipline of the relationship between humans and digital technology. It has been emerging from the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which began at the beginning of the twenty-first century with new technologies. With interaction among people both in physical life and Online, the change in method of digital anthropology is closely tied to the theoretical changes in anthropology, especially the formation of postmodem theory emerging from the early 1980s of the twentieth century and its practice to this day.