Edward Abse, University of Richmond, has conducted research on
Mexico, with an emphasis on indigenous cultures of Oaxaca, social
and religious change, shamanism and sorcery (witchcraft), ritual and
cosmology, ecstatic and visionary experience and culture, and ethno-
graphic methods and fieldwork ethics. He is the translator with notes
and annotations of the first bilingual edition of Alejandro Mendez
Aquino’s classic Noche e Rabanos: An Ethnohistory of Oaxacan Win-
tertime Customs and Celebrations (Oaxaca: Instituto Oaxaqueno de
la Culturas, 1997 ), and the author of “Maria Sabina,” a biographical
article about the renowned Mazatec shamaness in the Oxford Ency-
clopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures: the Civilizations of Mexico and
Central America ( 2001 ).
Millie Creighton, University of British Columbia, specializes in the
study of East Asia and serves on the Executive Management Boards
of both the Centre for Japanese Research and the Centre for Korean
Research at the University of British Columbia. In 1998 she received
the international Canon Foundation Prize for her article “Pre-Indus-
trial Dreaming in Post-Industrial Japan: Department Stores and the
Commoditization of Community Traditions.” Her extensive research
on popular culture, and representational images in Japan, includes
work on the imaging of children and the imaging of foreigners, par-
ticularly Canada and Canadians.
Duncan Earle, Clark University, Massachusetts, has research interests
in the social and cultural anthropology of Mesoamerica, with a par-
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