Editors and Contributors
About the Editors
Lynnette Leidy Sievertis a professor of anthropology at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst. She has international recognition for her cross-cultural
studies of women at midlife. Her work includes both quantitative and qualitative
measures, and her human biology background has enabled her to integrate bio-
logical and anthropological approaches to understanding this critical period in
women’s lives. She is an elected fellow of the AAAS, and has served on the
Executive Committee of the Human Biology Association and on the Board of
Trustees of the North American Menopause Society. She is the author of numerous
scholarly articles, and Menopause: A Biocultural Perspective, published by Rutgers
University Press in 2006.
Daniel E. Brownis a professor of anthropology at the University of Hawaii at
Hilo. He has utilized self-reports and biological markers of stress in his studies on
immigration and ethnic health disparities. He is the former president of the Human
Biology Association and an elected fellow of the AAAS. He is the author of
numerous peer-reviewed scholarly articles, as well as coauthor of Fundamentals of
Human Ecology (1998) and author of Human Biological Diversity: An Introduction
to Human Biology (2010), both published by Prentice-Hall.
Contributors
Ron Amundson Department of Philosophy (Emeritus), University of Hawaii at
Hilo, Hilo, USA
Helen L. Ball Department of Anthropology, Parent-Infant Sleep Laboratory,
Durham University, Durham, UK
Daniel E. BrownDepartment of Anthropology, University of Hawaii at Hilo,
Hilo, HI, USA
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