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List of Contributors
ticular focus on comparative efforts at development in Guatemala and
Chiapas, Mexico. A published poet and performance artist, he lives
in the borderlands when not away in the Northeast teaching commu-
nity development from an anthropological perspective. He most re-
cently finished, with Jeanne Simonelli, Uprising of Hope: Zapatistas
and Alternative Development in Chiapas (AltaMira Press, Walnut
Creekca) ( 2005 ).
Peter M. Gardner, professor emeritus from the University of Missouri,
has specialized in the study of hunters and gatherers in Southern In-
dia and in the Canadian Subarctic. His extensive body of work deals
with culture contact and ecological adaptation, the so-called individ-
ualism of hunter–gatherers, the anthropology of knowledge, and the
structure of classical Hindu civilization. His more recent publications
include: “Respect and Nonviolence among Recently Sedentary Forag-
ers,” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 6 ( 2000 ): 215 – 36 ;
Bicultural Versatility as a Frontier Adaptation among Paliyan Forag-
ers of South India ( 2000 ), and “Respect for All: The Paliyans of South
India,” in Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution and Peaceful Soci-
eties around the World ( 2004 ).
Jean-Guy A. Goulet, Saint Paul University (Ottawa), investigates the
many dimensions of the social life of the Wayu of Venezuela and Co-
lumbia and of the Dene Tha of northwestern Alberta. He is the co-
editor of Being Changed by Cross-Cultural Encounters: The Anthro-
pology of Extraordinary Experiences ( 1994 ), and is author of Ways
of Knowing: Experience, Knowledge and Power among the Dene Tha
( 1998 ), and of numerous book chapters and journal articles on Dene
Tha religious, political, and social life.
Guy Lanoue, Université de Montréal, carried out fieldwork between
1978 and 1979 among the Sekani, nomadic hunters in north-central
British Columbia, Canada, and in 1999 and 2000 among the Roman
bourgeoisie. His publications include Brothers: The Politics of Vio-
lence among the Sekani of Northern British Columbia ( 1992 ) and
Beyond Values and Ideology: Tales from Six North American Indian
Peoples ( 1990 ). He is the translator of Eleazar Meletinsky’s The Po-
etics of Myth published by Routledge in 2000.
