Atran, Scott

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Summary: 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. Wikipedia
Gender or Sex: Male [1][3][4][5]; Unknown [2]
Born: 1952 [2][5]
Birth Place: New York City [5]
Country: France [2]; United States [2]
Language: English [3]
Occupation: anthropologist [5]; political scientist [5]; researcher [5]
Profession: Anthropologe [2]
Employer: University of Michigan [5][5]; University of Cambridge [5]; University of Oxford [5]; National Center for Scientific Research [5]; John Jay College of Criminal Justice [5]
Educated at: Columbia University [5][5]; Johns Hopkins University [5]; Columbia College [5]
Country of Education: United States [5]

Sources: 1. VIAF; 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany); 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France; 4. Danish Bibliographic Centre; 5. Wikidata

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