the Australian techno-tribal movement, researching new youth countercultures
and unofficial strategies of reconciliation.
Arun Saldanha graduated in Communication Studies at the Free University of
Brussels in 1997, where he subsequently spent three years as a Teaching
Assistant. Since 2000 he has conducted doctoral research at the Department of
Geography, Open University, UK. His research interests include music,
globalization, feminism, postcolonial studies and poststructuralism.
John F.Sherry, Jr, is Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School, and is an
anthropologist who studies both the sociocultural and symbolic dimensions of
consumption and the cultural ecology of marketing. He is a Fellow of the
American Anthropological Association, as well as the Society for Applied
Anthropology. He is a past President of the Association for Consumer Research
and a former Associate Editor of the Journal of Consumer Research. He enjoys
wandering the world as a researcher, teacher and consultant.
Melanie Takahashi is a PhD candidate in the Department of Classics and
Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests include the
anthropology of religion, ritual and altered states of consciousness, and
contemporary youth movements. She is currently conducting research on the DJ
as technoshaman phenomenon and the causal relationship between the techniques
of the DJ and the precise nature of the experiences had by ravers.
Des Tramacchi is a PhD candidate in the Department of Studies in Religion
at the University of Queensland. His research interests include the religious use
of psychoactive substances, ecstatic dance cultures and the anthropology of
consciousness. He is currently investigating pharmacological cultures and social
attitudes toward them.
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