Podcasts about professor boyer

Professor Boyer covered sovereignty, states, and the United Nations.

Professor Boyer wrapped up the lecture on heads of state.

Professor Boyer goes over the syllabus in detail. (3rd upload - sound lag sound be fixed!)

Pascal Boyer (Washington University) is Henry Luce Professor of Individual and Collective Memory in Arts & Sciences. An anthropologist and psychologist, he is internationally recognized for his studies of how people and communities perceive and understand characteristics of their culture. His work centers on questions concerning the understanding of culture and its scientific investigation as it relates to the mind and the brain. Most of his research is focused on the cognitive processes involved in acquiring, storing and transmitting cultural knowledge, norms and preferences. The aim is to show how the organization of the human mind influences human cultures by making certain types of ideas or norms extremely easy to acquire and communicate. He has done anthropological and psychological research on the transmission of oral epics in Africa and on the transmission of religious concepts. He currently is engaged in cognitive experimental work on young children’ concepts of animate beings and numbers. Professor Boyer is the author of a numerous books and articles, including The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion, which has been called a landmark study of religion and of cognitive approaches to culture, and most recently, Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought.