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Scott Atran is credited as an anthropologist, political scientist and researcher. Education on record includes Columbia University. Listed accolades include Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society.
My Take
Scott Atran is one of those rare scholars who refuses the comfort of the desk. Born in New York in 1952 and trained at Columbia, this American-French anthropologist studies why people believe and why they will die for a cause, the most intractable question in human conflict. He cofounded a center at Oxford devoted precisely to that. What moves me is that he does not theorize from afar; he goes to the front lines and actually listens to fighters and zealots. A Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society directing research across continents, he uses scholarship to mend the world's wounds. I hold him in high regard.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Scott Atran
- Name (Japanese)
- スコット・アトラン
- Reading
- すこっと・あとらん
- Born
- 1952
- Origin
- New York City, New York, United States
- Occupation
- anthropologist / political scientist / researcher / psychologist
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Dragon
2. Background
- University
- Columbia University
Awards & achievements
- Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society
3. Links
4. About this entry
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