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>> 279 About the Contributors Lucas Bessire is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. An award-winning filmmaker and author, he writes widely on indigeneity, biopolitics, and violence in the Gran Chaco region of South America. Anderson Blanton is a 2011–2012 postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the author of the forthcoming book Until the Stones Cry Out: Materiality , Technology, and Faith in Southern Appalachia. His research focuses on the interface of religion, tactility, and technology in Appalachia. Daniel Fisher is a lecturer of anthropology at Macquarie University. He has written broadly on Australian Indigenous media and music production as well as on issues of Indigenous mobility and town camping in Northern Australia. He is completing a monograph on Indigenous Australian media production and public affect and directs Macquarie’s ethnographic media program. Faye Ginsburg is David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology, director of the Graduate Program in Culture and Media, director of the Center for Media, Culture & History, and codirector of the Center for Religion and Media at New York University. Author and editor of five books, including Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain, she has written extensively on indigenous media, documentary film, and gender politics. Melinda Hinkson is a senior lecturer in anthropology at the Australian National University. She is author of Aboriginal Sydney: A Guide to Important Places of the Past and Present (2001) and coeditor (with John Altman) of Culture Crisis: Anthropology and Politics in Aboriginal Australia (2010) and Coercive Reconciliation: Stablise, Normalise, Exit Aboriginal Australia (2007). Jeffrey S. Juris is an assistant professor of anthropology at Northeastern University. Author of Networking Futures: the Movements against Corporate 280 << About the Contributors Globalization (2008), his research focuses on globalization, social movements , and new digital media, with a geographic focus on Spain and Mexico. Danny Kaplan is a senior lecturer at Bar Ilan University. The author of Brothers and Others in Arms: The Making of Love and War in Israeli Combat Units (2003) and The Men We Loved: Male Friendship and Nationalism in Israeli Culture (2006), Kaplan specializes in the anthropology of emotions through the prism of friendship and nationalism. Kira Kosnick is a professor of sociology in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Goethe-University Frankfurt. Author of Migrant Media: Turkish Broadcasting and Multicultural Politics in Berlin, she has written widely on the politics of ethnicity, immigration, and urban space in Europe. Laura Kunreuther is an associate professor of anthropology at Bard College. Her monograph on public life in Kathmandu after the reestablishment of democracy is forthcoming. Her research interests center on themes of cultural memory, urban public culture, and technology and media. Dorothea Schulz is a professor of anthropology at the University of Cologne. The author of three books, including Muslims and New Media in West Africa: Pathways to God, she has written extensively on Islamic performance and mediation in Mali. Lynn Stephen is a university distinguished professor of anthropology and ethnic studies at the University of Oregon. The author of four books, including Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon , she has written extensively on gender inequality, migration, and social movements. Jo Tacchi is a professor and deputy dean of research and innovation at RMIT University. She has written extensively on radio and on new media technologies and social change. Debra Vidali-Spitulnik is an associate professor of anthropology at Emory University. Author of numerous essays on radio, she has written extensively on people’s relationships with media and language in Zambia. ...

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