University of Connecticut professor of anthropology Dimitris Xygalatas is a scientist and self-declared rational thinker. But he's also a lifelong soccer fan, and he fully admits that when his Greek ...

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Dimitris Xygalatas, Ph.D., is an anthropologist and cognitive scientist who runs the Experimental Anthropology Lab at the University of Connecticut. He uses a combination of ethnographic and ...

With graduation ceremonies, weddings, funeral, annual parades, and many other gatherings called off, it is apparent that our lives are filled with rituals. UConn Assistant Professor of Anthropology ...

Growing up in Greece, Dimitris Xygalatas remembers adults at school putting him through regular practices that didn't serve an obvious purpose. DIMITRIS XYGALATAS: We'd have morning prayer. Twice a ...

“I always feel my stomach churn when I look at someone being impaled by a spear through the cheeks,” writes Dimitris Xygalatas, an anthropologist at the University of Connecticut specialising in the ...