The cross-cultural study of knowing, feeling and reasoning. The scope of this paper includes: the concept of belief in cross-cultural analysis; modes of thought and action relating to causality, accounting for and predicting events, and responsibility; the anthropology of world religion; indigenous knowledge systems; cultural constructions of the body and care, and concepts of the person; linguistic and cultural translation; the anthropology of emotions, subjectivity, and affect; anthropological perspectives on ethics and the place of ideas of the moral in anthropological theory.

Further information including a list of lecture courses and background reading can be found in the Paper Guide in the Paper Resources section to the right of this page.