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Exchange and co-production of knowledges

Anthropology of This Century
2019-01 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Gregory Alexandre Deshoulliere; Natalia Buitron; Rita Astuti
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On keeping up the tension between fieldwork and ethnography

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
2017 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Rita Astuti
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Taking people seriously (the 2015 Robert H. Layton Lecture)

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
2017-04-01 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Rita Astuti
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The causal cognition of wrong doing: incest, intentionality, and morality

Frontiers in Psychology
2015-02-18 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Rita Astuti; Maurice Bloch
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Are ancestors dead?

Companion to the Anthropology of Religion
2013-09 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9780470673324
Contributors: Rita Astuti; Maurice Bloch
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Anthropologists as cognitive scientists

Topics in Cognitive Science
2012 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Rita Astuti; Maurice Bloch
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Some after dinner thoughts on theory of mind

Anthropology of This Century
2012-01 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Rita Astuti
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Death, ancestors and the living dead: learning without teaching in Madagascar

Children's Understanding of Death: From Biological to Religious Conceptions
2011 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9780521194594
Contributors: Rita Astuti
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Why a theory of human nature cannot be based on the distinction between universality and variability: lessons from anthropology

Behavioral and Brain Sciences
2010-06 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Rita Astuti; Maurice Bloch
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Revealing and obscuring Rivers’s pedigrees: biological inheritance and kinship in Madagascar

Kinship and Beyond: the Genealogical Model Reconsidered
2009-03 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9781845454227
Contributors: Rita Astuti
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Understanding mortality and the life of the ancestors in rural Madagascar

Cognitive Science
2008 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Rita Astuti; Paul L. Harris
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Some problems with property ascription

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
2008-04 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Nicola Knight; Rita Astuti
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Ancestors and the afterlife

Religion, Anthropology, and Cognitive Science
2007 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9781594601071
Contributors: Rita Astuti
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Questions of anthropology

London School of Economics monographs on social anthropology
2007 | Book | Editor
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Contributors: Charles Stafford; Rita Astuti; J. P Parry
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Weaving together culture and cognition: an illustration from Madagascar

Intellectica: Revue de L'association Pour la Recherche Cognitive
2007 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Rita Astuti
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What happens after death?

Questions of Anthropology
2007 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9781845207489
Contributors: Rita Astuti
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La moralité des conventions: tabous ancestraux à Madagascar

Terrain
2007-02 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Rita Astuti
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Learning that there is life after death

Behavioral and Brain Sciences
2006-10 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Paul L. Harris; Rita Astuti
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Constraints on conceptual development : a case study of the acquisition of folkbiological and folksociological knowledge in Madagascar

Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
2004-12 | Report | Author
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Contributors: Rita Astuti; Gregg E. A. Solomon; Susan Carey
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Comment on F. J. Gil-White's article 'Are ethnic groups biological "species" to the human brain? Essentialism in our cognition of some social categories'

Current Anthropology
2001 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Rita Astuti
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Are we all natural dualists? A cognitive developmental approach. The Malinowski Memorial Lecture, 2000

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
2001-09 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Rita Astuti
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Kindreds, cognatic and unilineal descent groups : new perspectives from Madagascar

Cultures of Relatedness : New Approaches to the Study of Kinship
2000 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 052165193x
Contributors: Rita Astuti
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Les gens ressemblent-ils aux poulets?: Penser la frontière homme-animal à Madagascar / Do people resemble chickens? Thoughts about the animal-human borderline in Madagascar

Terrain
2000-03 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Rita Astuti
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At the centre of the market: a Vezo woman

Lilies of the Field: How Marginal People Live for the Moment
1999 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9780813335315
Contributors: Rita Astuti
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'It's a boy', 'It's a girl!' : reflections on sex and gender in Madagascar and beyond

Bodies and Persons : Comparative Perspectives From Africa and Melanesia
1998 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 0521621941
Contributors: Rita Astuti
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'The Vezo are not a kind of people': identity, difference and 'ethnicity' among a fishing people of western Madagascar

American Ethnologist
1995 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Rita Astuti
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People of the sea: identity and descent among the Vezo of Madagascar

Cambridge studies in social & cultural anthropology
1995 | Book | Author
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Contributors: Rita Astuti
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Invisible objects: mortuary rituals among the Vezo of western Madagascar

Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics
1994 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Rita Astuti
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Food for pregnancy. Procreation, marriage and images of gender among the Vezo of western Madagascar

Social Anthropology
1993 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Rita Astuti
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