# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/scott-atran
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:22:57.463Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/scott-atran"
name: "Scott Atran"
slug: "scott-atran"
description: "Scott Atran 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."
tagline: "Anthropologist"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
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birthDate: "1952"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.619655999999999
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump