Professor Harvey Whitehouse
Contact
Email
harvey.whitehouse@anthro.ox.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 (0)1865 274705
Teaching and research interests
Cultural transmission, cognitive science of culture, religion and ritual; Papua New Guinea and the Pacific.
After carrying out two years of field research on a ‘cargo cult’ in New Britain , Papua New Guinea in the late eighties, Harvey Whitehouse developed a theory of 'modes of religiosity' that has been the subject of extensive critical evaluation and testing by anthropologists, historians, archaeologists, and cognitive scientists. In recent years, he has focused his energies on the development of collaborative programmes of research on cognition and culture.
He is Director of the Centre for Anthropology and Mind, CAM (http://www.icea.ox.ac.uk/cam/) and a Fellow of Magdalen College.
