Aleksandar Boskovic

Aleksandar Bošković is a Macedonian anthropologist with the degrees from Tulane University (M.A.) and the University of St Andrews (Ph.D.). He wrote or edited twenty books and several hundred articles on the history and theory of anthropology, mostly from a transactionalist and comparative perspective. In 2018/19 he was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Lyon. Together with his colleague and economics professor John Hamman, Bošković organized a two-day conference about rationality, at the University of Lyon, on 10–11 April 2019. On 26 July 2024, with his late friend and colleague Thomas Hylland Eriksen, he convened a roundtable “(Dis)placements: anthropologies, histories, futures,” at the EASA conference in Barcelona.