List of ContributorsDeirdre Meintel, Université de Montréal, is director of the Groupe
de Recherche Ethnicité et Société. Her research interests focus on mi-
gration; urban anthropology, religion, and modernity; transnational-
ism; ethnicity; plural identities; and globalization. She was co-editor,
with Sylvie Fortin, of a special issue of Canadian Ethnic Studies enti-
tledThe New French Fact in Montreal: Francization, Diversity, Glo-
balization ( 2002 ) and the guest editor for a special issue of Anthro-
pologie et Sociétés on religion in movement ( 2003 ).
Bruce Granville Miller, University of British Columbia, is involved in
the comparative study of political and legal issues facing indigenous
peoples and the problems in the production of knowledge in anthro-
pology. He has served as an expert witness in indigenous litigation
in the United States and Canada and is co-director of the UBC grad-
uate ethnographic field school. He has recently published The Prob-
lem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World ( 2001 )
andInvisible Indigenes: The Politics of Nonrecognition ( 2003 ).“Be
of Good Mind”: Essays on the Coast Salish (University of British Co-
lumbia Press) will appear in 2007.
Denise Nuttall, York University, has as research interests embodiment
and cultural theory; anthropology of the body and performance; ap-
prenticeship as a method in the social sciences; South Asia, India, and
the South Asian diaspora; indigenous knowledge systems; postcolonial
anthropology; transnational, transcultural, and intercultural studies;
and ethnomusicology. She is currently researching a book entitled A
Biography of Tabla: Following the Masters.
Petra Rethmann, McMaster University, has specialized in issues of in-
digenous and political culture in the Chukotka and Kamchatka pen-
insulas in the Russian Far East, with particular attention to issues of
gender, history, and the politics of cultural imaginations. The recipient
of awards from the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada,
the daad (German Academic Exchange Service), and the Woodrow
Wilson Center in Washington dc, she has taught as a visiting profes-
sor at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Tundra Passages:
Gender and History in the Russian Far East ( 2001 ), and numerous
articles in edited volumes and journals.