In May 2018, the European Union (EU) introduced the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with the aim of increasing transparency in data processing and enhancing the rights of data subjects. Within anthropology, concerns have been raised about how the new legislation will affect ethnographic fieldwork and whether the laws contradict the discipline’s core tenets. To address these questions, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London hosted an event on 25 May 2018 entitled ‘Is Anthropology Legal?’, bringing together researchers and data managers to begin a dialogue about the future of anthropological work in the context of the GDPR. In this article, I report and reflect on the event and on the possible implications for anthropological research within this climate of increasing governance.

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人类学合法吗？

2018年5月，欧盟（EU）出台了《通用数据保护条例》（GDPR），旨在提高数据处理的透明度并增强数据主体的权利。在人类学内部，人们对新立法将如何影响人种学田野调查以及法律是否与该学科的核心宗旨相抵触提出了担忧。为了解决这些问题，伦敦大学东方与非洲研究学院（SOAS）于2018年5月25日举办了一场题为``人类学是否合法？''的活动，汇集了研究人员和数据管理人员开始就人类学的未来进行对话在GDPR的背景下工作。在本文中，我报告并思考了这种事件以及在这种治理日益增强的环境下对人类学研究的可能影响。