Aleksandar Bošković is an anthropologist from former Yugoslavia, who wrote or edited eighteen books and several hundred articles on history and theory of anthropology, mostly from a transactionalist and comparative perspective. In 2018/2019 he was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies (Institut d'Études Avancées) in Lyon. Together with his fellow colleague and economics professor John Hamman (Florida State University), Bošković organized a two-day conference about rationality, at the University of Lyon, on 10–11 April 2019.He is currently editor of the series "Anthropology's Ancestors," published by Berghahn Books, and forthcoming (July 2021) co-editor of the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures.