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List of Contributors
Deborah Bird Rose, Centre for Research and Environmental Studies,
Institute of Advanced Studies, The Australian National University.
Her work with Aboriginal people is focused on social and ecologi-
cal justice. She is the author of Country of the Heart: An Indigenous
Australian Homeland ( 2002 ), Nourishing Terrains: Australian Ab-
original Views of Landscape and Wilderness, Dingo Makes Us Hu-
man (winner of the 1992 / 1993 Stanner Prize), and Hidden Histories
(winner of the 1991 Jessie Litchfield Award). Her most recent book
is with University of New South Wales Press: Reports from a Wild
Country: Ethics for Decolonisation.
Edmund Searles, Bucknell University, specializes in the study of per-
sonal and cultural identity among the Inuit of Nunavut, Canada, and
in the investigation of the changing nature of social and human–envi-
ronment relations in the circumpolar North. He is currently research-
ing Anglican Inuit spirituality in the Canadian Arctic. He has published
the results of his investigations in Anthropologie et Sociétés,Études/
Inuit/Studies, and the Annual Review of Canadian Studies.
Jeanne Simonelli, Wake Forest University, is the new editor of Prac-
ticing Anthropology and is co-director of the Maya Study Program,
which teaches undergraduate students in anthropology to conduct
field research. She has received the 2000 prize for poetry from the
Society for Humanistic Anthropology for her poetry and short sto-
ries based on field experiences. Among her publications, one notes
Two Boys, A Girl, and Enough! ( 1986 ),Too Wet to Plow: The Fam-
ily Farm in Transition ( 1992 ), and Crossing between Worlds: The
Navajos of Canyon de Chelly ( 1997 ). From Alta Mira Press, and co-
authored with Duncan Earle, is her latest book: Uprising of Hope:
Sharing the Zapatista Journey to Alternative Development.
Janferie Stone, PhD candidate at the University of California, Davis.
She studies practices of the everyday, such as the narration of tales,
especially among Maya women, to create degrees of consciousness,
intentionality, and the will to work against violence to create worlds
within which they can themselves be authentic and free. She has pre-
sented results of her investigations at recent meetings of the Ameri-
can Anthropological Association, including an earlier version of the
