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Pierre
Liénard,
Assistant
Professor
Decision-making in typical ecologies, cognition
and culture, cultural evolution, behavioral ecology &
evolutionary psychology, psychology of precaution,
coalitional psychology, psychology of ritualized
behavior, politics of pastoral societies, study of
pastoral populations (Karimojong Cluster).
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.
2010 Lienard, P., Life stages and risk-avoidance:
Status- and context-sensitivity in precaution systems.
Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. (2010),
doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.09.007
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.
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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