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Pierre Liénard, Assistant Professor |
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- Office: WRI B109
- Phone: 702 895 3831
- Fax: 702 895 4823
- Email
Pierre.Lienard@unlv.edu
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Ph. D. : Université Libre de Bruxelles, 2003
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Interests: Cognition and culture, evolutionary perspective on culture, biological anthropology, behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, vigilance and precautionary thinking, coalitional thinking, trust and exchange, psychology of ritualized behavior, economics and politics of pastoral societies, ethnography of pastoral populations, ethno-psychiatry.
The common denominator of all components of my research agenda is an evolutionary approach to human cultures. Many recurrent features of cultures are probably best explained by properties of the human mind. In attempting to explain particular stable cultural items such as collective ritualized behaviors or typical patterns of social exchange and coalition, we should adopt a strong agenda of reduction to features of the mind/brain.
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Selected Publications
English
2008. (With Boyer P.) “ Ritual Behavior in Obsessive and Normal Individuals: Moderating Anxiety and Reorganizing the Action-Flow”.
Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol. 17, issue 4, 291-234.
2008. (With E. Thomas Lawson) “Evoked Culture, Ritualization and Religious Rituals”. In Pyysiäinen I. (ed.),
Religion 38 (2008) 157-171.
2006. (With Boyer P.), ‘Why ritualized behavior? Precaution Systems and Action Parsing in Developmental, Pathological and Cultural Rituals’.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2006) 29, 1-56.
2006. (With Boyer P.), ‘Whence Collective Rituals? A Cultural Selection Model of Ritualized Behavior’.
American Anthropologist, volume 108, number 4 (December 2006: 814-827).
2006. (With Sørensen J. & Finney C.), ‘Agent and Instrument in judgment of ritual efficacy’.
The Journal of Cognition and Culture, volume 6, issue 3-4: 463-482.
2006. ‘The making of peculiar artifacts: Living kind, artifact and social order in the Turkana sacrifice’.
The Journal of Cognition and Culture, volume 6, issue 3-4: 343-373.
2004. (With F. Anselmo), ‘The social construction of emotions: gratification and gratitude among the Turkana and Nyangatom of East Africa’. In Steven Van Wolputte and Gustaaf Verswijver (eds). At the Fringes of Modernity. People, Cattle, Transitions. African Pastoralists Studies 2. Tervuren : RMCA, 150-198, photographs.
French
2004. ‘Kuju/kwap, kide/too: la valence des coordonnées spatiales de la topographie Turkana’. Civilisations, volume II des actes du Séminaire "Espaces et Sociétés – approches comparatives", vol. 52-1, 127-177, photographs.
2002. ‘Une communauté seringueira (Etat d'Acre, Brésil)’. In Philippe Erikson, Lenaerts, Marc (ed.). Idées à bouturer. Ethnoécologie amazonienne. Nanterre: Commission Européenne (CCE – DG XII), Université Libre de Bruxelles & Laboratoire d’Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative, 271-306.
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