Carles Salazar (Badalona, 1961) is a professor of anthropology at the University of Lleida, with a degree in law and geography and history from the University of Barcelona, and a master's degree and a doctorate in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge. He has done ethnographic fieldwork in Ireland and Catalonia. His research has focused mainly on the anthropology of the family, sexuality, religion and knowledge. He has also researched anthropological thinking and the cultural understanding of biomedicine and genetics. Among his latest publications include Anthropology and sexual morality (2006), Religio, cultura i cognició. Perspectives des de l'anthropologie (2007), European kinship in the age of biotechnology (2009, co-edited with Jeanette Edwards) and Per què creiem en Déu? (2010).