My research and teaching interests are centered in the following areas: cognitive and linguistic anthropology, ethnobiology, environmental decision making, categorization and reasoning, evolutionary psychology, anthropology of science (history and philosophy of natural history and natural philosophy); Middle East ethnography and political economy; natural history of Lowland Maya, cognitive and commitment theories of religion.
Other Appointments
Atran also serves as Adjunct Research Scientist at the Research Center for Group Dynamics; Adjunct Professor for the School of Natural Resources & Environment; Associate Research Scientist for the Anthropology Department; and Directeur de Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.
Recent Book
In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion
Oxford University Press (Evolution and Cognition), October 2002
ISBN 0-19-514930-0
Adjunct Professor
Recent Book