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Christian Bromberger is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France and Professor of Anthropology at the Université de Provence, as well as being the current Director of the Institut français de recherche en Iran. He has published 180 works about the foundations for and expression of collective identities in Iran (particularly, the province of Guilan) and Southern Europe. In addition, he has carried out long-term research on the meanings of soccer. Several of his works have a more general scope and seek to rethink the Mediterranean and to renew anthropological methods, concepts, and subjects, particularly with regard to the contemporary Western world. Currently he is writing two books; one is about the social and cultural management of hair, and the other examines a peasant family from Guilan in order to shed light on contemporary Iranian society.

Bas Jongenelen teaches Dutch literature at the Fontys University of Professional Education, Tilburg, the Netherlands.

Ben Parsons teaches medieval and early modern literature at the University of Leicester and the University of Nottingham Trent. Jongenelen and Parsons have collaborated on several Modern English versions of Middle Dutch texts. Their previous projects have included translations from the sonnets of Jan Van der Noot and the dream-visions of Anthoonis de Roovere. They are currently working on a sequence of lyrics from the famous Gruuthuse songbook.

Helen A. Regis is Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University. She is the editor of Caribbean and Southern: Transnational Perspectives on the U.S. South and the author of Charitable Choices: Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era (with John Barkowski), Fulbe Voices: Marriage, Islam, and Medicine in Northern Cameroon, and several articles on the politics of performance in public space. She has been participating in the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival since 1986.

Shana Walton is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of New Orleans. She has worked in the fields of oral history, cultural studies, and linguistic anthropology and has written on linguistic practice and identity in Cajun English. Since Hurricane Katrina, she has conducted research among displaced New Orleanians and has worked with community-based organizations to rebuild the city.

Anthony K. Webster is Assistant Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He earned his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. His current research focuses on Navajo poetry and poetics and Southern Athabaskan ethnohistory of communication. He has published in Pragmatics, Oral Tradition, Studies in American Indian Literature, and American Indian Culture and Research Journal. His forthcoming work will appear in Anthropological Linguistics, Language in Society, International Journal of American Linguistics, and Plains Anthropologist. [End Page 503]

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