Manvir Singh, author portrait
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Manvir Singh

MANVIR SINGH is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis. He holds a bachelor’s degree in human biology from Brown University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, and his writings have also appeared in Wired, Vice, Aeon, and The Guardian, as well as leading academic journals, including Science, Nature Human Behaviour, and Behavioral and Brain Sciences. He has studied Indigenous psychedelics use in the Orinoco river basin of Colombia and, since 2014, has conducted ethnographic fieldwork with Mentawai communities on Siberut Island, Indonesia, focusing on shamanism and justice. He lives with his wife and baby daughter in Davis, CA.
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Books for World Religion Day

For World Religion Day on January 18th, we are sharing books from writers who practice various religious traditions and beliefs, with topics ranging from Christianity, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Shamanism to ethics, inspiration for a better life, history of religion, and religion and politics.

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