Peter B. Gray, Ph.D.

Department of Anthropology

Reading Groups

Three years ago we launched a reading group devoted to issues of Evolution, Adaptation and Synthesis (see Archive link), and that group morphed into a Biocultural Anthropology reading group. Please join us for periodic meetings to discuss a paper, manuscript draft or grant proposal draft devoted to some facet of biocultural anthropology. We meet Mondays at 2:30 in the UNLV Wellness Center Café. Email me (Peter Gray) if you would like to be added to the reading group email list, including receiving papers circulated ahead of the discussion. Also, if you’re a UNLV undergraduate or graduate student interested in the evolution and endocrinology of human behavior, then please email me about a different reading group that meets weekly to discuss a paper or manuscript draft within that scope. We convene Tuesdays 11:20-12:20 in WRI B114. In this fascinating world, we never run out of fresh fodder for discussion. 

 

Reading Group Archive: Fall 2006-Spring 2009

 

Fall 2009 Schedule

Monday August 31. Schultz E. 2009. Resolving the anti-evolutionist dilemma: A brief for relational evolutionary thinking in anthropology. American Anthropologist 111: 224-237.

Monday September 14. Jankowiak W and Gerth H. In prep. Can you love more than one person at the same time? A research report.

Monday September 21. No meeting. Brooke Scelza visiting.

Monday September 28. Koenig BA et al. Introduction. In Koenig et al, Eds. 2009. Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age.

Monday, October 5. Du W et al. 2002. Cross-cultural comparisons of discounting delayed and probabilistic rewards. The Psychological Record 52: 479-492.

Monday, October 12. Gray PG and Young SM. In prep. Human-pet dynamics in cross-cultural perspective.

Monday, October 19. Jankowiak W. 2005. Well-being, cultural pathology, and personal rejuvenation in a Chinese city, 1981-2005. In: Mathews G and Izquierdo C, Eds. Pursuits of Happiness: Well-being in Anthropological Perspective.