W Matthews

Biographic Data

ID47926
NAMEW Matthews
GIVEN NAMESW
FAMILY NAMEMatthews
SIGNATUREMATTHEWS W
AFFILIATIONSLondon School of Economics and Political Science
ORCID0000-0002-1614-1428
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS43
TOTAL CITATIONS148
AUTHOR COUNT43
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1877
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Homo anthropologicus

    Open AccessIvan Deschenaux, W MatthewsARTICLEAnthropological Theory2025Cited by: 1References: 37

    Inferences from ethnography in sociocultural anthropological arguments frequently rely on an unexamined model of the human mind and behaviour. Across a range of theoretical approaches, human thought and behaviour are implicitly understood as coherently following a single underlying cultural logic, described in terms such as 'ontology', habitus, political strategy. We term this implicit model Homo anthropologicus, by analogy with Homo economicus. …

  • Getting Our Ontology Right

    Open AccessW MatthewsARTICLETheory Culture & Society2023References: 6

    This article presents a cognitive anthropological critique of François Jullien's approach to language and culture. Jullien approaches 'culture' as a coherent set of concepts across time and space, relying primarily on identifying Chinese (and Greek) thought with particular concepts expressed in language. This mischaracterizes human culture, which exists on the level of individual mental representations, and relies on a form of linguistic determin…

  • Reduction, Generation, and Truth

    W MatthewsARTICLECurrent Anthropology2022Cited by: 1References: 28

    The study of divination remains of central relevance to anthropology for what it reveals about the relationship between intuitive and reflective cognition. What marks divination out is the reflective elaboration of the role granted to intuitive associations in arriving at verdicts, which produces two distinct forms of divinatory interpretation. Generative interpretation, exemplified by Cuban Ifá, relies on maximizing the opportunity for intuitive…

  • Reflective Ontology and Intuitive Credibility in Chinese Six Lines Prediction

    Open AccessW MatthewsARTICLESocial Analysis2021

    Any form of divination can be intuitively compelling without the need for ontological elaboration, but practices like Chinese six lines prediction involve complex ontological accounts, raising the question of what effect this has on divination’s authority and persuasiveness. The explicit ontology of six lines prediction appears to make it especially persuasive, because it provides a coherent model of epistemology and causation that is readily com…

  • The Yijing Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics

    W Matthews, William J MatthewsARTICLEMade in China Journal2020

  • Making “Science” from “Superstition”

    W MatthewsARTICLEJournal of Chinese Religions2017

    Yijing prediction is experiencing a popular revival in the contemporary PRC, ongoing since the beginning of the Reform era. At the same time, state and popular discourse continue to valorize “science” (kexue 科學) as modern, accurate, and legitimate, against backward, false, and illegitimate “superstition” (mixin 迷信). Yijing prediction is widely considered “superstitious,” but is cast by diviners as a legitimate form of knowledge. Based on ethnogra…

  • Ontology with Chinese characteristics

    Open AccessW MatthewsARTICLEHau Journal of Ethnographic Theory2017Cited by: 19References: 17

    This article describes the cosmological and ontological assumptions of diviners in contemporary China with a view to contributing to current anthropological debates on ontology. Ethnographic examples demonstrate that divination based on the cosmology of the Yi Jing assumes a monist ontology characterized by continuity of physicality and interiority. This argument is supported by discussions of cosmogony and the separability of the person. The cor…

  • Brief overdose education can significantly increase accurate recognition of opioid overdose among heroin users

    Open AccessJermaine D Jones, Perrine Roux et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Drug…2014

  • Issues in the Study of Palaeoclimate and Palaeoenvironment in the Early Holo¬cene of the Central Zagros, Iran

    Open AccessW MatthewsARTICLEInternational Journal of…2013

    This paper reviews some of the key issues in the study of palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironment in the early Holocene of the Central Zagros. It also considers palaeocological research in this and other regions of the Near East, as well as preliminary results from new collaborative excavation and research at the early Neolithic sites of Sheikh-e Abad and Jani in Kermanshah province. The paper concludes with an outline of issues and directions for fu…

  • Identity and Religion in Palestine

    W Matthews, W C MatthewsARTICLEJournal of Islamic Studies2009

    The rise of the Islamist tendency in Palestinian politics and society has attracted considerable attention, both academic and journalistic, during the last fifteen years. The literature on the topic has examined the ideology and structure of Palestinian Islamist organizations, and even their foreign relations. Loren Lybarger has taken a different approach to understanding the Islamist ascendancy in Palestine by examining the discourses within and…

  • Microstratigraphic traces of site formation processes and human activities

    W Matthews, C French et al.ARTICLEWorld Archaeology1997Cited by: 121References: 21

    The aim of this paper is to show how micromorphology is able to furnish information with the degree of precision necessary for analysing site formation processes and traces of activities in a variety of settings. Use of large resin-impregnated thin sections allows contextual analysis of taphonomy and depositional relationships between sediments and artefact and bioarchaeological remains. We illustrate this by reference to results from a three-yea…

  • Excavations at Tell Brak, 1994

    Roger Matthews, R J MATTHEWS et al.ARTICLEIraq1994

  • The Diary of Samuel Pepys

    Phillip Harth, Samuel Pepys et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1984

  • Romance and Chronicle

    W MatthewsARTICLESpeculum1974

  • Where was Siesia-Sessoyne

    W MatthewsARTICLESpeculum1974

  • The Diary of Samuel Pepys. A New and Complete Transcription, Vols. I-III, 1600-1662

    Robert Ashton, Robert Latham et al.ARTICLEThe Economic History Review1973

  • Charles of Orleans

    W MatthewsARTICLESpeculum1969

  • A Knyght There Was

    W MatthewsARTICLESpeculum1968

  • Allegorical Imagery

    Open AccessW MatthewsARTICLERenaissance Quarterly1967

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  • Malory's Originality

    W MatthewsARTICLESpeculum1966

  • The Development of Arthurian Romance . Roger Sherman Loomis

    W MatthewsARTICLESpeculum1964

  • Étude sur La Mort le roi Artu, roman du XIIIe siècle . Jean Frappier

    W MatthewsARTICLESpeculum1963

  • The Tragedy of Arthur

    R T Davies, W MatthewsARTICLEThe Modern Language Review1962

  • Members of Parliament, 1734-1832

    John W Wilkes, Gerrit P Judd et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1957

  • The Problem of Christ in the Twentieth Century

    Joy Harvey, J W Harvey et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1952

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Problem of Christ in the Twentieth Century : Maurice Lectures, 1949. By W. R. Matthews. (London: Oxford University Press. 1951. Pp. x + 88. Price 7s 6d). J. W. Harvey J. W. Harvey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 2, Issue 9, October 1952, Pages 383–384, https://doi.org/10.2307/2216830 Published: 01 October 1952