Harvey Whitehouse

Harvey Whitehouse is a professor of social anthropology at Oxford and a Professorial Fellow of Magdalen College. He co-edited Religion, Anthropology and Cognitive Science (2007).

Written by Harvey Whitehouse

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Human rites

Rituals bind us, in modern societies and prehistoric tribes alike. But can our loyalties stretch to all of humankind?

Harvey Whitehouse