Scott Atran
1952
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genre: popular science literature
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, Columbia College
award received: CSS Fellow, National Academy of Sciences
Scott Atran (born February 6, 1952) is an American-French cultural anthropologist who is Emeritus Director of Research in Anthropology at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris, Research Professor at the University of Michigan, and cofounder of ARTIS International and of the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict at Oxford University. He has studied and written about terrorism, violence, religion, indigenous environmental management and the cross-cultural foundations of biological classification; and he has done fieldwork with terrorists and Islamic fundamentalists, as well as political leaders and Native American peoples. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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