Astuti, Rita

Number of items: 31.
Anthropology
  • Astuti, Rita (2024). Innovation and social identity in Madagascar. In Charbonneau, Mathieu (Ed.), Evolution Of Techniques: Rigidity and Flexibility in Use, Transmission, and Innovation (pp. 27 - 36). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15181.003.0007
  • Deshoulliere, Gregory Alexandre, Buitron, Natalia, Astuti, Rita (2019). Exchange and co-production of knowledges: reflections from Amazonia. Anthropology of This Century, (24), picture_as_pdf
  • Astuti, Rita (2017). Taking people seriously (the 2015 Robert H. Layton Lecture). HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 7(1), 105-122. https://doi.org/10.14318/hau7.1.012
  • Astuti, Rita (2017). On keeping up the tension between fieldwork and ethnography. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 7(1), 9-14. https://doi.org/10.14318/hau7.1.003
  • Astuti, Rita, Bloch, Maurice (2015). The causal cognition of wrong doing: incest, intentionality, and morality. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00136
  • Astuti, Rita, Bloch, Maurice (2013). Are ancestors dead? In Boody, Janice, Lambek, Michael (Eds.), Companion to the Anthropology of Religion . Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Astuti, Rita (2012). Some after dinner thoughts on theory of mind. Anthropology of This Century, 3,
  • Astuti, Rita, Bloch, Maurice (2012). Anthropologists as cognitive scientists. Topics in Cognitive Science, 4(3), 453-461. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1756-8765.2012.01191.x
  • Astuti, Rita (2011). Death, ancestors and the living dead: learning without teaching in Madagascar. In Talwar, Victoria, Harris, Paul L., Schleifer, Michael (Eds.), Children's Understanding of Death: From Biological to Religious Conceptions (pp. 1-18). Cambridge University Press.
  • Astuti, Rita, Bloch, Maurice (2010). Why a theory of human nature cannot be based on the distinction between universality and variability: lessons from anthropology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33(2-3), 83-84. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X10000026
  • Astuti, Rita (2009). Revealing and obscuring Rivers’s pedigrees: biological inheritance and kinship in Madagascar. In Bamford, Sandra, Leach, James (Eds.), Kinship and Beyond: the Genealogical Model Reconsidered (pp. 214-236). Berghahn Books.
  • Knight, Nicola, Astuti, Rita (2008). Some problems with property ascription. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 14(s1), S142-S158. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2008.00498.x
  • Astuti, Rita, Harris, Paul L. (2008). Understanding mortality and the life of the ancestors in rural Madagascar. Cognitive Science, 32(4), 713-740. https://doi.org/10.1080/03640210802066907
  • Astuti, Rita (2007). La moralité des conventions: tabous ancestraux à Madagascar. Terrain, 48, 101-112.
  • Stafford, Charles, Astuti, Rita, Parry, J. P (Eds.) (2007). Questions of anthropology. Berg (Firm).
  • Astuti, Rita (2007). Weaving together culture and cognition: an illustration from Madagascar. Intellectica: Revue de L'association Pour la Recherche Cognitive, (46/47), 173-189.
  • Astuti, Rita (2007). What happens after death? In Astuti, Rita, Parry, Jonathan, Stafford, Charles (Eds.), Questions of Anthropology (pp. 227-247). Berg (Firm).
  • Harris, Paul L., Astuti, Rita (2006). Learning that there is life after death. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29(5), 475-476. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X06369105
  • Astuti, Rita, Solomon, Gregg E. A., Carey, Susan (2004). Constraints on conceptual development : a case study of the acquisition of folkbiological and folksociological knowledge in Madagascar. (Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development). Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the Society for Research in Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5834.2004.00297.x
  • Astuti, Rita (2001). Are we all natural dualists? A cognitive developmental approach. The Malinowski Memorial Lecture, 2000. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 7(3), 429-447. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.00071
  • Astuti, Rita (2001). Comment on F. J. Gil-White's article 'Are ethnic groups biological "species" to the human brain? Essentialism in our cognition of some social categories'. Current Anthropology, 42(4), 536-537. https://doi.org/10.1086/321802
  • Astuti, Rita (2000). Les gens ressemblent-ils aux poulets?: Penser la frontière homme-animal à Madagascar / Do people resemble chickens? Thoughts about the animal-human borderline in Madagascar. Terrain, (34), 89-105.
  • Astuti, Rita (2000). Kindreds, cognatic and unilineal descent groups : new perspectives from Madagascar. In Carsten, Janet (Ed.), Cultures of Relatedness : New Approaches to the Study of Kinship (pp. 90-103). Cambridge University Press.
  • Astuti, Rita (1999). At the centre of the market: a Vezo woman. In Day, Sophie, Papataxiarchis, Euthymios, Stewart, Michael (Eds.), Lilies of the Field: How Marginal People Live for the Moment (pp. 83-95). Westview Press.
  • Astuti, Rita (1998). 'It's a boy', 'It's a girl!' : reflections on sex and gender in Madagascar and beyond. In Lambek, Michael, Strathern, Andrew (Eds.), Bodies and Persons : Comparative Perspectives From Africa and Melanesia (pp. 29-52). Cambridge University Press.
  • Astuti, Rita (1995). People of the sea: identity and descent among the Vezo of Madagascar. Cambridge University Press.
  • Astuti, Rita (1995). 'The Vezo are not a kind of people': identity, difference and 'ethnicity' among a fishing people of western Madagascar. American Ethnologist, 22(3), 464-482. https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1995.22.3.02a00010
  • Astuti, Rita (1994). Invisible objects: mortuary rituals among the Vezo of western Madagascar. Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 25, 111-112.
  • Astuti, Rita (1993). Food for pregnancy. Procreation, marriage and images of gender among the Vezo of western Madagascar. Social Anthropology, 1(3), 277-290.
  • Astuti, Rita (1991). Learning to be Vezo: the construction of the person among fishing people of western Madagascar [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • LSE
  • Astuti, Rita (2007). Ancestors and the afterlife. In Whitehouse, Harvey, Laidlaw, James (Eds.), Religion, Anthropology, and Cognitive Science (pp. 161-178). Carolina Academic Press.