CONTRIBUTORS

Aletta Biersack has studied Ipili speakers since 1974. Her research on the Paiela and Porgera valleys of Papua New Guinea has been reported in many articles and book chapters. She is the editor of Ecologies for Tomorrow: Reading Rappaport Today (a "contemporary issues forum," American Anthropologist 101:5–112), Papuan Borderlands (1995), and Clio in Oceania (1991).

Pascale Bonnemère is a researcher at the CNRS. Among other writings, she is the author of a monograph on the Ankave-Anga of Papua New Guinea, Le pandanus rouge (1996), and has recently coordinated a volume on the implication of women in Papua New Guinea male rituals. Her most recent research concerns the Ankave system of food taboos as revealing modes of connection between persons through the life cycle.

Michael F. Brown is Lambert Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies at Williams College. He is the coauthor of War of Shadows: The Struggle for Utopia in the Peruvian Amazon (1991) and the author of The Channeling Zone: American Spirituality in an Anxious Age (1997).

Beth A. Conklin is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. As a cultural and medical anthropologist, she focuses on the ethnography of native Amazonian societies, body concepts, personhood, cannibalism, and the politics of representations of indigenous peoples.

Philippe Descola prepared his doctorate under the supervision of Claude Lévi-Strauss after extensive fieldwork among the Jívaroan Achuar of Ecuador. His books include Les idèes de l'anthropologie (1998), In the Society of Nature (1994), The Spears of Twilight (1994), Nature and Society (1996), and La production du social (1999). He is presently a professor at the Collège de France.

William Fisher is an associate professor at the College of William and Mary. His recently completed study of the effects of logging and mining on indigenous communities in the Amazon is entitled Rain Forest Exchanges: Industry and Community on an Amazonian Frontier. He was in residence at the University of Brasilia as a Fulbright Scholar in 2000.

Thomas A. Gregor is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University. His research centers on the tribal peoples of central Brazil; his theoretical interests include gender, psychoanalysis, and psychological approaches to culture. Professor Gregor is the author or editor of books on the Mehinaku Indians and the nature of peace and conflict, as well as the coproducer of ethnographic films in Brazil. He is currently engaged in research and publication on the anthropology of peace and nonviolence among the native peoples of South America.

Jonathan D. Hill is Professor of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He is editor of Rethinking History and Myth: Indigenous South American Perspectives on the Past and History, Power, and Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Americas, 1492–1992 and author of Keepers of the Sacred Chants: The Poetics of Ritual Power in an Amazonian Society. He currently organizes the project "Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Culture Area and Language Family in Amazonia."

Stephen Hugh-Jones teaches social anthropology at the University of Cambridge. His field research on the Tukanoan-speaking peoples of the Colombian Vaupés region spans some 30 years. His research interests include ritual and mythology; architecture, kinship, and social structure; enviromental relations; food and drugs; and indigenous movements. His main publications include a monograph on initiation rituals, books that he has edited on barter and "house societies," and papers on history, shamanism, attitudes to animals, and ethno-education.

Margaret Jolly is Professor and Head of the Gender Relations Centre in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. She writes on gender in the Pacific, the politics of tradition, exploratory voyages and travel writing, missions and Christianity, sexuality, cinema, and art. She is the author of Women of the Place: Kastom, Colonialism and Gender in Vanuatu (1994) and coedited Family and Gender in the Pacific (1989), Sites of Desire/Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific (1997), Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific (1998), and Governing Bodies: State, Sexuality and Fertility in Asia and the Pacific (2000).

Paul Roscoe is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Maine. His recent publications include "Amity and Aggression: A Symbolic Theory of Incest" (Man) and "War and Society in Sepik New Guinea" (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute). He is coeditor of Gender Rituals: Female Initiation in Melanesia (Routledge).

Marilyn Strathern is William Wyse Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and Mistress of Girton College. Her research interests are divided between Melanesian and British ethnography. The Gender of the Gift (1988) is a critique of anthropological theories of society and gender relations as they have been applied to Melanesia, while After Nature (1992) comments on the cultural revolution at home. Recent publications include the coauthored Technologies of Procreation (1993) and a collection of essays, Property, Substance and Effect: Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things (1999).

Donald Tuzin is Professor of Anthropology and founding director of the Melanesian Archive at the University of California, San Diego. His works cover various topics in social and psychological anthropology and include, most recently, The Cassowary's Revenge: The Life and Death of Masculinity in a New Guinea Society (1997) and Social Complexity in the Making: A Case Study among the Arapesh of New Guinea (2001).