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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...