Columbia University (BA, PhD) Johns Hopkins University (MA)
Scientific career
Fields
Anthropology, ethnography
Institutions
École pratique des hautes études Cambridge University Oxford University Hebrew University of Jerusalem University of Michigan John Jay College of Criminal Justice Centre national de la recherche scientifique École normale supérieure
Doctoral advisor
Margaret Mead
Scott Atran (born February 6, 1952) 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[1] at Oxford University.[2] He has studied and written about terrorism,[3] violence,[4] religion,[5] indigenous environmental management and the cross-cultural foundations of biological classification;[6] and he has done fieldwork with terrorists and Islamic fundamentalists,[7] as well as political leaders[8] and Native American peoples.
^"Centre for Resolution of Intractable Conflicts". hmc.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2 August 2017.
^Bower, Bruce (June 23, 2016). "New studies explore why ordinary people turn terrorist". Science News. Retrieved June 20, 2016.
^Michael, Bond (October 25, 2010). "How to catch the 'jihadi bug'". New Scientist. Retrieved March 18, 2013.
^Sharon, Begley (August 25, 2006). "Science Journal: Key to peace in Mideast may be 'sacred beliefs'". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved March 18, 2013.
^Henig, Robin Marantz (March 4, 2007). "Darwin's God". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved March 18, 2013.
^Serrelli, Emanuele (2010). "Folkbiology: The Importance of How People Understand Nature". Evolution: Education and Outreach. 4 (4): 158–167. doi:10.1007/s12052-010-0245-x. S2CID 31507523.
^"Senate Hearing 111-822: U.S. Government Efforts to Counter Violent Extremism". gpo.gov. Committee on Armed Services United States Senate, Government Printing Office. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
^Bohannon, John (March 11, 2010). "Should Social Scientists Help the U.S. Fight Terror?". Science. Archived from the original on May 16, 2013. Retrieved March 18, 2013.
ScottAtran (born February 6, 1952) is an American-French cultural anthropologist who is Emeritus Director of Research in Anthropology at the Centre national...
ATRAN may refer to: ATRAN, a Russian cargo airline ATRAN (Automatic Terrain Recognition And Navigation), a radar map-matching system developed by Goodyear...
role in motivating the majority of bombers, as noted by anthropologist ScottAtran. The usage of the term "suicide attack" has a long history,[citation...
Surrogate Colonialism is a term used most notably by anthropologist ScottAtran in his essay "The Surrogate Colonization of Palestine 1917–1939" to describe...
the natural world. Medin, Douglas L.; Scott, Atran (1999). Folkbiology. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-63192-X. ScottAtran (1999) Folk Biology (PDF), in Robert...
Terrorism from the Field" ARTIS International was founded in 2006 by ScottAtran, Richard Davis, and Marc Sageman. ARTIS International collaborates with...
a link between the Madrid suspects and the wider world of al-Qaida". ScottAtran said "There isn't the slightest bit of evidence of any relationship with...
borders without recognising state of Israel Gaza". Al Jazeera. 2 May 2017. ScottAtran, Robert Axelrod (2008). "Reframing Sacred Values" (PDF). Negotiation...
2024. Atran, Scott (2002). In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195149302. Atran, Scott (2001)...
Ambedkar Giulio Angioni Jon Altman Arjun Appadurai Talal Asad Timothy Asch ScottAtran Marc Augé Nigel Barley Fredrik Barth Vasily Bartold Keith H. Basso Daisy...
Davies' article written by Jerry Coyne, Nathan Myhrvold, Lawrence Krauss, ScottAtran, Sean Carroll, Jeremy Bernstein, PZ Myers, Lee Smolin, John Horgan, Alan...
2010). "Talking to the Enemy by ScottAtran – [book] review". The Observer. Retrieved 19 October 2014. Atran, Scott (2006). "The Moral Logic and Growth...
out-groups. Along with his research on the Tamil Tigers, anthropologist ScottAtran found that Palestinian terrorist groups (such as Hamas) provide monthly...
recruited the eventual perpetrators from a local Hamas soccer team. ScottAtran states that the Hamas politburo in Damascus was not informed of the attack...
statistics, two Beirut news agencies and Western reports" According to ScottAtran, in just one year in one Muslim country alone – 2004 in Iraq – there...
happenings are warnings from God for all of us." In an interview with ScottAtran from his cell in Cipinang Prison, Jakarta, Bashir said: "I call those...
Asimov in "Free Inquiry", Spring 1982, vol.2 no.2, p. 9 (See Wikiquote.) Atran criticising other speakers in an Edge discussion Archived 2013-04-13 at...
ideology, not that of the Muslim Brotherhood. According to anthropologist ScottAtran, the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood even in Egypt has been overstated...
abnormal. In comparison to economic theories of criminal behaviour, ScottAtran found that suicide terrorists exhibit none of the socially dysfunctional...
Herzliya. Archived from the original on 2016-09-23. Retrieved 2016-09-23. ScottAtran, 'Who Becomes a terrorist Today?,' in C. Webel, John A. Arnaldi (eds...
Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran. Ramadan Shalah was interviewed by ScottAtran and Robert Axelrod in Damascus, Syria, on 15 December 2009. In the interview...
which is a key concept within cognitive science of religion. The work of ScottAtran on Cognitive Foundations of Natural History: Towards an Anthropology...
taking on a life of its own, fueled by such media coverage. Similarly, ScottAtran writes that "publicity is the oxygen of terrorism" and that rapid growth...
chemist and professor of chemistry at Lincoln College, Oxford, in England. ScottAtran (1952–): American-French cultural anthropologist who is Emeritus Director...
supporters vary between 100,000 and 600,000. According to anthropologist ScottAtran, while the Brotherhood has 600,000 dues paying members in Egypt it can...
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