"Astuti, Rita"

Astuti, Rita and Bloch, Maurice (2013) Are ancestors dead? In: Boody, Janice and Lambek, Michael, (eds.) Companion to the anthropology of religion. Wiley-Blackwell, London, UK. ISBN 9780470673324 (In Press)

Astuti, Rita (2012) Some after dinner thoughts on theory of mind. Anthropology of this century, 3 . ISSN 2047-6345

Astuti, Rita and Bloch, Maurice (2012) Anthropologists as cognitive scientists. Topics in cognitive science, 4 (3). pp. 453-461. ISSN 1756-8757

Astuti, Rita (2011) Death, ancestors and the living dead: learning without teaching in Madagascar. In: Talwar, Victoria, Harris, Paul L. and Schleifer, Michael, (eds.) Children's understanding of death: from biological to religious conceptions. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-18. ISBN 9780521194594

Astuti, Rita and 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). pp. 83-84. ISSN 0140-525X

Astuti, Rita (2009) Revealing and obscuring Rivers’s pedigrees: biological inheritance and kinship in Madagascar. In: Bamford, Sandra and Leach, James, (eds.) Kinship and beyond: the genealogical model reconsidered. Fertility, reproduction and sexuality (15). Berghahn Books, New York, USA, pp. 214-236. ISBN 9781845454227

Knight, Nicola and Astuti, Rita (2008) Some problems with property ascription. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 14 (s1). S142-S158. ISSN 1359-0987

Astuti, Rita and Harris, Paul L. (2008) Understanding mortality and the life of the ancestors in rural Madagascar. Cognitive science, 32 (4). pp. 713-740. ISSN 0364-0213

Astuti, Rita (2007) La moralité des conventions: tabous ancestraux à Madagascar. Terrain: carnets du patrimoine ethnologique, 48 . pp. 101-112. ISSN 0760-5668

Astuti, Rita (2007) Ancestors and the afterlife. In: Whitehouse, Harvey and Laidlaw, James, (eds.) Religion, anthropology, and cognitive science. Ritual studies monograph series . Carolina Academic Press, Durham, N.C., pp. 161-178. ISBN 9781594601071

Stafford, Charles, Astuti, Rita and Parry, J. P, eds. (2007) Questions of anthropology. London School of Economics monographs on social anthropology , 76 . Berg, London, UK. ISBN 9781845207496

Astuti, Rita (2007) Weaving together culture and cognition: an illustration from Madagascar. Intellectica: revue de l'Association pour la Recherche Cognitive (46/47). pp. 173-189. ISSN 0769-4113

Astuti, Rita (2007) What happens after death? In: Astuti, Rita, Parry, Jonathan and Stafford, Charles, (eds.) Questions of anthropology. London School of Economics monographs on social anthropology (76). Berg Publishers, Oxford, UK, pp. 227-247. ISBN 9781845207489

Harris, Paul L. and Astuti, Rita (2006) Learning that there is life after death. Behavioral and brain sciences, 29 (5). pp. 475-476. ISSN 0140-525X

Astuti, Rita, Solomon, Gregg E. A. and 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. ISBN 9781405132299

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). pp. 429-447. ISSN 1467-9655

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). pp. 536-537. ISSN 0011-3204

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: revue d'ethnologie de l'Europe (34). pp. 89-105. ISSN 1777-5450

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. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 90-103. ISBN 052165193x

Astuti, Rita (1999) At the centre of the market: a Vezo woman. In: Day, Sophie, Papataxiarchis, Euthymios and Stewart, Michael, (eds.) Lilies of the field: how marginal people live for the moment. Studies in the ethnographic imagination . Westview Press, Boulder, CO, pp. 83-95. ISBN 9780813335315

Astuti, Rita (1998) 'It's a boy', 'It's a girl!' : reflections on sex and gender in Madagascar and beyond. In: Lambek, Michael and Strathern, Andrew, (eds.) Bodies and persons : comparative perspectives from Africa and Melanesia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 29-52. ISBN 0521621941

Astuti, Rita (1995) People of the sea: identity and descent among the Vezo of Madagascar. Cambridge studies in social & cultural anthropology . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 0521433509

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). pp. 464-482. ISSN 0094-0496

Astuti, Rita (1994) Invisible objects: mortuary rituals among the Vezo of western Madagascar. Res: anthropology and aesthetics, 25 . pp. 111-112. ISSN 0277-1322

Astuti, Rita (1993) Food for pregnancy. Procreation, marriage and images of gender among the Vezo of western Madagascar. Social anthropology, 1 (3). pp. 277-290. ISSN 1469-8676