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Scott Atran

Anthropologist · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1952 · age 74

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.

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Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society

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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.

Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1952 · age 74