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Werner Hertzog is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISEK) at the University of Zurich. He specializes in cognitive anthropology and holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Vanderbilt University. His primary research site is the Chiapas highlands in southern Mexico, where he conducted fieldwork among the Tzotzil-Maya people beginning in 2010. Hertzog has also worked in southern Brazil and conducted fieldwork in Kazakhstan. His research focuses on the effects of modernization on cultural cognition within agricultural societies. His Ph.D. research explored how social change affects local cooperation and resource management in Tzotzil-Maya communities. His interdisciplinary research combines qualitative and quantitative methods from anthropology, cognitive sciences, and economics, with recent projects examining topics such as ethnic identity essentialism, Tzotzil-Maya animism and religious change, and ritual reputation economies. In 2022, he studied land use distribution among farmers in the Zhetysu region of southeastern Kazakhstan.
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