TOBIAS REES is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at U.C. Berkeley. He received his MA in anthropology, philosophy, comparative history of religion, and education from the University of Tuebingen (2000), and obtained a diploma in neuropharmacology from the Pasteur Institute (2003). From 2002 to 2004 he has conducted research in neurology and pharmacology laboratories in Paris. The focus of his work is on how the discovery of cerebral plasticity has led to a new (and distinctly contemporary) way of thinking and knowing the brain as locus of the human. Tobias Rees has published on the relation between modernity and religion, and has translated and edited several books.