List of Contributorspaper published in this book first presented at the aaa Chicago meet-
ings in 2004.
Anahí Viladrich, Hunter College, City University of New York. Direc-
tor of the “Immigration and Health Initiative” funded by the School
of Health Sciences, she has research interests in immigrant health and
unequal access to health resources, social networks, and ethnic en-
claves and niches (including the tango world), and ethnographic ap-
proaches to the study of ethnomedical systems. She is the recipient of
the Marisa De Castro Benton Prize at Columbia University for her dis-
sertation on Argentine immigrants in New York City, which is soon
to appear as a book.
Barbara Wilkes, University of Alberta School of Native Studies, has
directed her recent research on the social construction and lived ex-
perience of disability (spinal-cord injury) among the Kanai (Blood
Tribe) of Southern Alberta. She has presented several papers at con-
ferences regarding the Native experience of disability and her own
experiences as a Sundancer. The title of her PhD dissertation is Máát-
sikómatapííkssis “Broken People”: The Lived Experience of Spinal
Cord Injury among the Kainai.