Manvir Singh, Ph.D.

Dr. Singh directs the Integrative Anthropology Lab, which combines evolutionary, cognitive, and sociocultural methods and theory to understand the nature and origins of human behavior, particularly ubiquitous sociocultural traditions such as shamanism, witchcraft, story, and music. He is also interested in ancestral social organization, drug use and mystical experiences, and evolutionary approaches to mental health. His research is mostly built on two methods: (1) long-term ethnographic fieldwork and (2) the construction and analysis of cross-cultural databases. Since 2014, he has worked with Mentawai communities on Siberut Island, Indonesia.