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Pierre Lienard

Department of AnthropologyUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas

4505 S. Maryland Parkway Box 455003Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-5003

(702) 8953831

[email protected]

Academic DegreesPh.D. Universit Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, Social Sciences; Anthropology 2003

B.A. Universit Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, Social Sciences ; Anthropology 1994

(Licences & candidatures spciales)B.A. Universit Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, Journalism & Communication 1991

(Licences)

Universit Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, Journalism & Communication 1989(Candidatures)

Additional TrainingAuditor Universidade de Braslia,Masterado Social & Cultural Anthropology 1991-1992

Exchange American Field Service Program, E.H.T. High School, New Jersey 1986-1987

Student

Academic employment University of Nevada, Las Vegas Assistant Professor 2008-present Washington University in St Louis, PostDoc Research Scholar 2006-2008Memory & Development Lab. Queens University, Belfast, PostDoc Research Scholar 2005-2006

Institute of Cognition & Culture

Washington University in St Louis PostDoc Research Fellow 2004-2005Memory & Development Lab.

Ecole Nationale Suprieure des Arts Visiting Professor 2002-2003Visuels de la Cambre, Brussels, Belgium

Ecole Nationale Suprieure des Arts Lecturer 2001-2002Visuels de la Cambre, Brussels, Belgium

Areas of Specialization / Research Interests Politics of pre-sate pastoral political & social systems (Eastern Africa) Study of Paranilotic groups (Turkana, Kenya & Nyangatom, Ethiopia) Coalitional & precaution psychologies Psychology of ritualized behavior Cultures & cognition (cross-cultural comparison)
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Publications Lienard, P. et al. (under revision)Early development of fairness in a tribal society Bryant, G., Lienard, P. & Barrett, H. C. (accepted) Infant-directed speech across distant

cultures: Evidence from Africa [peer-reviewed]

Young, S., Benyshek, D. & Lienard, P. (2012, forthcoming) The Conspicuous Absence ofPlacenta Consumption in Human Postpartum Females: The Fire Hypothesis.Ecology of Food

and Nutrition, 00: 000-000 [peer-reviewed]

Lienard, P. & Sorensen, J. (2012, forthcoming) Tools for thought: A theoretical account ofthe ritual use of tool. In Armin W. Geertz (ed.), Origins of Religion, Cognition andCulture. London: Equinox Publ. Ltd. 000-000

Harrod, R., Lienard, P., Martin, D. (2012) Deciphering Violence: The potential of modernethnography for the interpretation of archaeological populations. In: Martin DL, HarrodRP, and Perez VR, editors. Bioarchaeology of Violence: Small-scale conflict, warfare, andritualized violence. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. p 116-168. [peer-reviewed]

Baumard, N. & Lienard, P. (2011) Second or third party punishment? When self-interesthides behind apparent functional interventions. Response letter to S. Mathew and R. Boyd.

(2011) Punishment sustains large-scale cooperation in pre-state warfare. PNAS, 108 (28):11375-11380. September 27, 2011, vol. 108, no. 39, E753

Lienard, P. (2011) (online 10/14/2010), Life stages and risk-avoidance: Status- and context-sensitivity in precaution systems, in Threat-Detection and precaution: Neuro-physiological,

Behavioral, cognitive and Psychiatric Aspects, special issue of Neuroscience and

Biobehavioral Reviews 35 10671074 [peer-reviewed]

Lienard, P. (2010) Invited review, Mind-boggling in An author meets her critics, aroundThe Mind Possessed; The Cognition of Spirit Possession in an Afro -Brazilian Religious

Tradition by Emma Cohen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), in Religion and

Society: Advances in Research, vol. 1 (Fall 2010), 164-176

Boyer, P. & Lienard, P. (2008) Ritual Behavior in Obsessive and Normal Individuals:Moderating Anxiety and Reorganizing the Action-Flow. Current Directions inPsychological Science, vol. 17, issue 4, 291-234. [peer-reviewed]

Lienard, P. & Lawson, E. T. (2008) Evoked Culture, Ritualization and Religious Rituals. InPyysiinen I. (ed.), Religion 38 (2008) 157-171 [peer-reviewed]

Lienard, P. & Boyer, P. (2006) Whence Collective Rituals? A Cultural Selection Model ofRitualized Behavior. American Anthropologist, volume 108, number 4 (December 2006:

814-827) [peer-reviewed]

Boyer, P. & Lienard, P. (2006) Why ritualized behavior? Precaution Systems and ActionParsing in Developmental, Pathological and Cultural Rituals.Behavioral and Brain Sciences

(2006) 29, 1-56 [peer-reviewed]

Srensen, J. P., Linard, P., & Feeny, C. (2006). Agent and instrument in judgments ofritual efficacy.Journal of Cognition and Culture, 6(3-4), 463-482 [peer-reviewed] Lienard, P. (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.

[peer-reviewed]

Lienard, P. (2006) About juvenility, the features of feminine speech and a big leap.Commentary on John L. Locke & Barry Bogin. Language and life history: A new perspective


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on the development and evolution of human language. In Behavioral and Brain Sciences,

volume 29, number 3 (June 2006): 293.

Lienard, P. (2004) Kuju/kwap, kide/too: la valence des coordonnes spatiales de latopographie Turkana. Civilisations, volume II des actes du Sminaire "Espaces et Socits approches comparatives", vol. 52-1, 127-177, photographs [peer-reviewed]

Lienard, P. & Anselmo, F. (2004) The social construction of emotions: gratification andgratitude among the Turkana and Nyangatom of East Africa. In Steven Van Wolputte andGustaaf Verswijver (eds). At the Fringes of Modernity. People, Cattle, Transitions. AfricanPastoralists Studies 2. Tervuren : RMCA, 150-198, photographs.

Lienard, P. (2002) Une communaut seringueira (Etat d'Acre, Brsil). In Philippe Erikson,Lenaerts, Marc (orgs.).Ides bouturer. Ethnocologie amazonienne. Nanterre: Commission

Europenne (CCE DG XII), Universit Libre de Bruxelles & Laboratoire dEthnologie etde Sociologie Comparative, 271-306.

Lienard, P. (2002) (Web publication) Seringueiros (Acre, Brsil) : rapport anthropologique inTSEMIM (Transmission et Transformation des Savoirs sur lEnvironnement en Milieu

Indigne et Mtis), tude interdisciplinaire (botanique et anthropologique) pour la

Commission Europenne DG Recherche (www.ulb.ac.be/socio/tsemim),French & Spanish. Lienard, P. (2001) Chorgraphie et sduction: les danses ngimongin des Turkana. La Pense

et les Hommes, actes du colloque (6-7 octobre 2000) du Cercle du Libre Examen "Plaisirs

d'Amour: la rencontre de l'autre ou le sens de la vie", 113-122.

Submitted

(Under review) Cultural Differences in Investing In Others And In the Future: WhyMeasuring Trust Is Not Enough

In Preparation

Warfares payoffs Politics at the FringesReprints Lienard, P & Boyer, P. (2010) Whence Collective Rituals? A Cultural Selection Model of

Ritualized Behavior in Justin L. Barrett (ed.), Psychology of Religion, Series: Critical

Concepts in Religious Studies, volume I, Subject: Psychological Sciences, Routledge

Lienard, P. & Boyer, P. (2010) Whence Collective Rituals? A Cultural Selection Model ofRitualized Behavior In John S. Wilkins (ed.), Intelligent Design And Religion As A natural

Phenomenon, Volume V, The International Library of Essays on Evolutionary Thought, 231-

242

Abstracts

Harrod, R., Lienard, P. & Martin, D. L. (2010) The Walking Wounded: MappingNonlethal Violence on living Turkana Africans to Provide Insight for BioarchaeologicalInterpretations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 141(S50):124 [published

abstract]

Lienard, P. (2010) Disgust, Habit, or? The Evolution of an Avoidance, paper, Invitedsession (Human Consumption of Afterbirth (Maternal Placentophagy): A Natural andBeneficial Practice?, AAA Annual Meeting (New Orleans) [refereed abstract]
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Scientific Reports Lienard, P., Data specification and participation to the constitution of a data bank (project

TSEMIM, Transmission and Transformation of Knowledge about the Environment inIndigenous and Half-caste Societies, European CommissionDG XII)

Lienard, P., Data specification and archiving of a collection of ethnographic items for theMRAC (Muse Royal de l'Afrique Centrale de Tervuren, Belgium)

Lienard, P. 1999ms. Liste sur la collection materielle des Turkana, unpublishedmanuscript. Department of Ethnography, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren,Belgium

Lienard, P. 1999 Annotation du material photographic (mission ethnographic in Turkana2007, 2008-2009)

Ethnographic collections Royal Museum for central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

[Collection of ethnographic items among the Turkana of Kenya & archiving of the artifacts]

Collaborations & Affiliations The AHRC Culture and the Mind Project Editorial board of the journal Religion, Brain and Behavior National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, KenyaGrants, Awards & Prizes AFOSR Research grant (subaward): Detection of outside threat in different cultures:

Ecological, cultural and cognitive factors of effective influence (2010-2013)

British Academy Small Research GrantSG-42934 (2006) Templeton Foundation Research Fellow (2005 to 2006) Hoover Foundation Brussels Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation, Inc

(2004 to 2005)

Prize granted by the jury of the Fondation de Meurs-Franois to acknowledge the quality ofthe student's training (2000 to 2001)

Prize of theFondation CasselULB (1995) Best final dissertation (Social Sciences section), Association des Docteurs et Licencis en

Sciences Sociales, Politiques et Economiques, Informatique et Sciences Humaines de

l'Universit Libre de Bruxelles (1994)

Teaching Introduction to Cultural Anthropology; History of Anthropology; Cultures and Cognition;

Evolution and Culture: Darwinian models of culture; Magic, witchcraft, and religion;

Seminar in Cultural Processes

Fieldwork Turkana herders, Turkana county, Kenya (active) Nyangatom herders, Omo Valley, Ethiopia


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Rubber-tapper communities, State of Acre, BrazilMeetings, Symposiums & WorkshopsOrganizer: Religion and Violence Symposium: Evolutionary and Political Perspectives

[http://www.webster.edu/religion-violence] Oct. 11-13 2007

Participant: Ritual and Ritualization, Expert Meeting, European Science Foundation, Aarhus University,

Denmark, April 2010

Threat-detection and precaution psychology, Stellenbosch,South Africa, Ball Aerospace Inc., June 17-20 2009

Fieldwork analysis, Folk Psychology & Folk Epistemics, Culture and the Mind Projectworkshop, Arts & Humanities Research Council, University of Sheffield, UK, April 2009

Folk Psychology & Folk Epistemics, Culture and the Mind Project workshop, Arts &Humanities Research Council, University of Sheffield, UK, March 2008

Norms & Moral Psychology, Culture and the Mind Project workshop, Arts & HumanitiesResearch Council, Rutgers University, USA, January 2008

Folk Psychology & Folk Epistemics, Culture and the Mind Project workshop, Arts &Humanities Research Council, Rutgers University, USA, January 2008

Folk Psychology & Folk Epistemics, Culture and the Mind Project workshop, Arts &Humanities Research Council, University of Sheffield, UK, April 2007

Folk Psychology & Folk Epistemics, Culture and the Mind Project workshop, Arts &Humanities Research Council, Centro de Caparide, Portugal, January 2007

Folk Psychology & Folk Epistemics, Culture and the Mind Project workshop, Arts &Humanities Research Council, University of Sheffield, UK., October 2006

Cultural Evolution Workshop, Org.: Dr Pascal Boyer, Memory and Development Laboratory,Washington University in St Louis, MO, USA, January 2006

Selected Recent Communications & Lectures SCCR Symposium - Cross-Cultural Approaches to Violence, Social Control and Health in Pre-

State Societies, Talk (With Jacqueline Casey), Traditional and Modern Warfare: Mismatch and

Anxiety, February 2012

ACCIG Symposium: Multiple Perspectives on Childhood Economics, Talk (with C. Chevallier, O.Mascaro, P. Kiura & N. Baumard), Cooperation and Fairness in 5-year-old Turkana Children,

February 2012

Invited talk, The interplay of decision-making, ecology & culture in fitness-enhancingbehaviors among the Turkana of Northern Kenya, Department of Psychology, ASU, Arizona,

March 2011

Lecture,Disgust, Habit Or.? The Evolution of an Avoidance, 109th Annual Meeting of theAmerican Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 2010

Invited Lecture,Life stages and risk-avoidance: Status- and context-sensitivity in precautionsystems, Religion Department, Cognition and Culture Group, Aarhus University, Denmark,

April 2010

Invited talk, Coping mechanisms, adaptations or Why do we find so many rituals beingperformed at critical phases of the life cycle?, Ritual and Ritualization meeting, Expert

Meeting, European Science Foundation, Aarhus University, Denmark, April 2010


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Talk, (with Harrod, R., and Martin, DL.) The Walking Wounded: Mapping NonlethalViolence on living Turkana Africans to Provide Insight for Bioarchaeological Interpretations.

The 79th Annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

Albuquerque, New Mexico. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement, April2010

Invited talk, Coping mechanisms, adaptations or Why do we find so many rituals beingperformed at critical phases of the life cycle?, Ritual and Ritualization meeting, ExpertMeeting, European Science Foundation, Aarhus University, Denmark April 2010

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