William F. Hutchinson1, Mark Culling1, David C. Orton2, Bernd Hänfling1, Lori Lawson Handley1, Sheila Hamilton-Dyer3, Tamsin C. O’Connell4, Michael P. Richards5,6 and James H. Barrett4 1Evolutionary Biology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK 2BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK 3SH-D ArchaeoZoology, 5 Suffolk Aven...

1) British Academy Centenary Research Project, School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Crown St, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK 2) new address: Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, UK 3) Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig D-0...

This commentary calls on medical anthropology to become programmatically non-secular. Despite recent anthropological critiques of secularity, within and outside of anthropology, most contemporary medical anthropologists continue to leave deities and religiosity out of their examinations of healing practices, especially in their accounts of biomedicine. Through a critical, relational constructio...