Webb Keane is the George Herbert Mead Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A cultural and linguistic anthropologist who has carried out fieldwork in Indonesia, he writes on a range of theoretical and ethnographic topics. He is the author of Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures on the Moral Imagination (Penguin, 2024; Princeton, 2025), Ethical Life: Its Natural and Social Histories (Princeton, 2016), Christian Moderns: Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter (California, 2007), and Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society (California, 1997).