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Informationen zum Autor Richard Fardon, Professor of West African Anthropology at SOAS, University of London, was Chair of the Association of Social Anthropologists (2001-5). His recent books have been about art and ritual in Cameroon and Nigeria, where he has researched - via fieldwork, archives and museum/art collections - since the mid-1970s: Column to Volume (2005, with Christine Stelzig), Lela in Bali (2006), Fusions (2007), Central Nigeria Unmasked (2011, with Marla Berns and Sidney Kasfir). John Gledhill , Max Gluckman Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, was Chair of the Association of Social Anthropologists (2005-9. His extensive fieldwork in Mexico and Brazil is currently focused on security issues. Publications include Casi Nada: Agrarian Reform in the Homeland of Cardenismo (1991); Neoliberalism, Transnationalization and Rural Poverty; Power and Its Disguises (1995): Anthropological Perspectives on Politics (2000); and Cultura y Desafío en Ostula: Cuatro Siglos de Autonomía Indígena en la Costa-Sierra Nahua de Michoacán (2004). Olivia Harris was Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics, where she moved from Goldsmiths, University of London. Following fieldwork in Bolivia, she wrote on gender, the family, exchange, labour and temporalities. She published To Make the Earth Bear Fruit (London 2000) and many articles. With Tristan Platt and Thérèse Bouysse-Cassagne she co-authored Qaraqara-Charka. Mallku, Inka y Rey en la Provincia de Charcas (2006). Future research would have included the Bolivian Revolution of 1952. Trevor H.J. Marchand is Professor of Social Anthropology at SOAS, University of London. Previously a practising architect, he has undertaken fieldwork with masons in South Arabia and West Africa, and most recently with woodworkers and furniture makers in London. He is the author of Minaret Building & Apprenticeship in Yemen (2001), The Masons of Djenné (2009) and The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work (forthcoming), and co-producer of the documentary film Future of Mud. He was Publications Officer of the Association of Social Anthropologists (2004-2008). Mark Nuttall is Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta, Canada. He has carried out extensive fieldwork and research in Greenland, Canada, Alaska, Scotland and Finland. He is editor of the Encyclopedia of the Arctic (2005), co-editor of Anthropology and Climate Change: from Encounters to Actions (2009), and author of Pipeline Dreams: People, Environment, and the Arctic Energy Frontier (2010). Cris Shore is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Auckland where until recently he was also Head of Department and Director of the Europe Institute. His research expertise lies in the fields of political anthropology and the ethnography of organizations, particularly the anthropology of Europe and the European Union. He has carried out long-term fieldwork in Italy, the UK and New Zealand. His current project is a study of university reform, neoliberalism, and globalization. Veronica Strang is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Auckland. Specializing in human-environmental relations, she has written extensively on water, land and resource issues in Australia and the UK. Her publications include The Meaning of Water (2004); Gardening the World: Agency, Identity, and the Ownership of Water (2009); and the ASA Monograph Ownership and Appropriation (2010, edited with Mark Busse). Richard A. Wilson is Gladstein Chair of Human Rights, Professor of Anthropology and Law, and Director of the University of Connecticut's Human Rights Institute, which he founded in 2003. He taught previously at the universities of Essex and Sussex in the UK. His work focuses on international human...
