Here's a great lecture by Wade Davis, anthropologist and author of One River

• Cultures at the Far Edge of the World

Below are a few of the papers I have written as part of my Ph.D. program at UCSD

• M.A. Thesis―Religion as Representations: Toward a Reconciliation of Schema Theory and the Cognitive Science of Religion (2007)  (pdf)

• AAA presentation―Religion as Representations: Toward a Reconciliation of Schema Theory and the Cognitive Science of Religion (2007)  (pdf)

• Archaeology paper―The Sacred Cave (2005)  (pdf)

• Cognitive Anthropology paper―Conceptual Blending and Religion (2007) (pdf)

• Medical Anthropology paper―Locating the Neurochemical Self (2007) (pdf)

• Psychological Anthropology paper―Neoteny and the Sense of the Natural (2006) (pdf)