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Scott Atran

Born

in New York, The United States

February 06, 1952

Website

https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/satran/

Genre

Science, Anthropology

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Scott Atran (born 1952) is an American and French anthropologist who is a Director of Research in Anthropology at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University in England, Presidential Scholar at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, and also holds offices at the University of Michigan. He has studied and written about terrorism, violence and religion, and has done fieldwork with terrorists and Islamic fundamentalists, as well as political leaders.

Atran was born in New York City in 1952 and he received his PhD in anthropology from Columbia University. While a student he became assistant to anthropologist Margaret Mead at the American Museum of Natural History. In 1974 he o ...more

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Average rating: 3.96 · 667 ratings · 84 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion (Evolution and Cognition) 3.95 avg rating — 318 ratings — published 2002 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists 3.97 avg rating — 286 ratings — published 2010 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature by Scott Atran, Douglas Medin 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quantum Physics of God. Neuroscience of Souls, Spirits, Dreams, Prophecy, Near Death, Reality by Deepak Chopra (Goodreads Author), Scott Atran, Matthew Alper (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cognitive Foundations of Natural History: Towards an Anthropology of Science 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1990 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'Etat islamique est une révolution 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plants of the Peten Itza' Maya: Plantas De Los Maya Itza' Del Peten (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 38.) (English and Spanish Edition) by Scott Atran, Ximena Lois, Edilberto Ucan Ek it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Values, Empathy, and Fairness Across Social Barriers by Scott Atran (Editor), Arcadi Navarro (Editor), Kevin N. Ochsner (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fondements de l'histoire naturelle: Pour une anthropologie de la science (Collection "Le Genre humain") 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology)] [By: Atran, Scott] [January, 2010] by Scott Atran, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“IQ is a general measure of socially acceptable categorization and reasoning skills. IQ tests were designed in behaviorism's heyday, when there was little interest in cognitive structure. [...] In other societies, a normal distribution of some general measure of social intelligence might look very different; some "normal" members of our society could well produce a score that's a standard deviation from "normal" members of another society on that other society's test.”
― Scott Atran

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“A closer look reveals that God may never have been wholly pleased with His most preferred creations in granting them the parts they have. Why did He invert the retina and give humans (but not the octopus) a blind spot? Why, in making us upright, did He render us so liable to back problems? Why did He give us just one head, heart, and liver instead of two? After all, having two lungs and kidneys is surely better than having one of each: if you have only one and it fails, you die; if you have two and only one fails, you live.”
― Scott Atran, In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion

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“Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. —FRANCIS BACON”
― Scott Atran, Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists

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