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227 Con­ trib­ u­ tors mary cathe­ rine bate­ son is a ­ writer and cul­ tural anthro­ pol­ o­ gist who di­ vides her time­ between New Hamp­ shire and Cam­ bridge, Mas­ sa­ chu­ setts, where she com­ pleted three years as a vis­ it­ ing pro­ fes­ sor at the Har­ vard Grad­ u­ ate ­ School of Ed­ u­ ca­ tion. She has writ­ ten and co­ au­ thored many books and ar­ ti­ cles, lec­ tures ­ across the coun­ try and­ abroad, and for ­ thirty years was pres­ i­ dent of the In­ sti­ tute for Inter­ cul­ tu­ ral Stud­ ies in New York City. Until 2004 she was the Clar­ ence J. Rob­ in­ son Pro­ fes­ sor in Anthro­ pol­ ogy and En­ glish at ­ George Mason Uni­ ver­ sity, and is now pro­ fes­ sor em­ e­ rita. Re­ cent pro­ jects in­ clude cel­ e­ brat­ ing the 2004 Greg­ ory Bate­ son Cen­ ten­ nial; or­ ga­ niz­ ing ­ Granny Vot­ ers for the 2004 electo­ ral sea­ son; and fin­ ish­ ing her books Will­ ing to Learn: Pas­ sages of Per­ sonal Dis­ cov­ ery (2004) and Com­ pos­ ing a Fur­ ther Life: The Age of Ac­ tive Wis­ dom (2010). ka­ mari max­ ine ­ clarke was ­ trained in po­ lit­ i­ cal sci­ ence and inter­ na­ tional re­ la­ tions at Con­ cor­ dia Uni­ ver­ sity, anthro­ pol­ ogy at the New ­ School for So­ cial Re­ search and at the Uni­ ver­ sity of Cal­ i­ for­ nia–Santa Cruz, and law at the Yale Law ­ School. She is a pro­ fes­ sor of anthro­ pol­ ogy and inter­ na­ tional and area stud­ ies at Yale Uni­ ver­ sity and a sen­ ior re­ search sci­ en­ tist at the Yale Law ­ School. She works on is­ sues re­ lated to re­ li­ gious na­ tion­ al­ ist move­ ments and human ­ rights/rule of law legal move­ ments. Her areas of re­ search have in­ cluded North­ ern and South­ ern Ni­ ge­ ria, ­ Yoruba com­ mu­ nities in the­ United ­ States, inter­ na­ tional for­ ums in the ­ United Na­ tions, and inter­ na­ tional crim­ i­ nal tri­ bu­ nals. Her books Map­ ping ­ Yoruba Net­ works: Power and ­ Agency in the Mak­ ing of Trans­ na­ tional Com­ mu­ nities (2004) and Glo­ bal­ iza­ tion and Race: To­ ward a Cul­ tural Pol­ i­ tics of Black­ ness (2006) both ex­ plore is­ sues re­ lated to par­ tic­ u­ lar glo­ bal trans­ for­ ma­ tions in the eth­ no­ graphic ­ sphere. Her book Fic­ tions of Jus­ tice: The Inter­ na­ tional Crim­ i­ nal Court and the Chal­ lenge of Legal Plu­ ral­ ism in ­ Sub-Saharan Af­ rica (2009) ex­ plores the com­ plex­ ities of law­ mak­ ing as it is re­ lated to local legal in­ sti­ tu­ tions and inter­ na­ tional legal ­ spheres. She is the chair of the Coun­ cil on ­ African Stud­ ies and the for­ mer di­ rec­ tor of the Yale Uni­ ver­ sity Cen­ ter for Trans­ na­ tional Cul­ tural Anal­ y­ sis. re­ becca har­ din is an as­ so­ ciate pro­ fes­ sor in the ­ School for Nat­ u­ ral Re­ sources and En­ vi­ ron­ ment at the Uni­ ver­ sity of Mich­ i­ gan. Her work on the west­ ern Congo basin re­ gion links the eth­ nog­ ra­ phy of inter­ de­ pen­ dent for­ ag­ ing and hor­ ti­ cul­ tu­ ral­ ist ­ groups with oral, his­ tor­ i­ cal, and archi­ val ­ sources on co­ lo­ nial prac­ tices to re­ con­ sider con­ tem­ po­ rary 228 contributors de­ bates among local, na­ tional, and inter­ na­ tional ac­ tors about en­ vi­ ron­ men­ tal man­ age­ ment. Pub­ li­ ca­ tions in Cur­ rent Anthro­ pol­ ogy, Sci­ ence, and FO­ CAAL: Jour­ nal of Glo­ bal and His­ tor­ i­ cal Anthro­ pol­ ogy focus on ac­ tors such as log­ ging and min­ ing inter­ ests as they inter­ act with con­ ser­ va­ tion or­ gan­ iza­ tions and com­ plex com­ mu­ nities in rural Af­ rica to shape for­ est ten­ ure and man­ age­ ment. Re­ cent work ex­ am­ ines com­ par­ a­ tive sites in Came­ roon and Congo Braz­ za­ ville (in pro­ tected areas...

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