Towards an Anthropology of DataThis special issue of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, co-edited with Rachel Douglas-Jones and Tone Walford, draws the apparent novelty of “data” into conversation with classic anthropological concerns, from kinship to value to personhood. The work collected here envisions a relationship between anthropology and data that is conceptual and theoretical, not only concerned with providing supplementary ethnographic thickness. Our introductory essay explores these themes in more detail.