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324 Contributors 324 CONTRIBUTORS Robert Barnes R.H. Barnes is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. He specializes in Eastern Indonesia. His publications include Kédang: A Study of the Collective Thought of an Eastern Indonesian People, Oxford: Clarendon Press (1974), Sea Hunters of Indonesia: Fishers and Weavers of Lamalera, Oxford: Clarendon Press (1996), and many articles on topics related to the region. Magnus Fiskesjö Magnus Fiskesjö teaches anthropology and Asian studies at Cornell University . An anthropologist and archaeologist educated in Sweden, China, and the US, his research is mainly in China and Southeast Asia. Since the mid-1990s he has done field research in the Wa country on the China-Burma border, initially for his dissertation at the University of Chicago, “The Fate of Sacrifice and the Making of Wa History” (2000). He is the translator of People and Forests: Yunnan Swidden Agriculture in Human-Ecological Perspective, written by the Chinese anthropologist Yin Shaoting (2001). Having served from 2000 to 2005 as the director of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm, Sweden, he also writes on museums and global cultural heritage issues, including the coauthored bilingual volume China Before China: Johan Gunnar Andersson, Ding Wenjiang, and the Discovery of China’s Prehistory (2004), with Chen Xingcan. Francis Alvarez Gealogo Francis Alvarez Gealogo is an Associate Professor of History at the Ateneo de Manila University. His research interests include Philippine social and demographic history; history of social movements; and the history of the Aglipayan movement. He served as editor of the Diliman Review while at the University of the Philippines. His articles were published in the Philippine Social Sciences Review, the Diliman Review, Social Science Information, Philippine Studies, the Journal of History (Philippines), and Contributors 325 contributed entries for the Philippine Social Science Encyclopedia for which he served as co-editor of the History volume. He is the present Managing Editor of Philippine Studies. Hew Wai Weng 丘偉榮 丘偉榮 Hew Wai Weng 丘偉榮 is a PhD student in the Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), at the Australian National University. His research topic is “Contesting Chinese and Islamic Identities in Malaysia and Indonesia: The Case of Chinese Muslims.” Wai-Weng obtained his MPhil from Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), National University of Malaysia (UKM). He was an associate researcher at a Center for Opinion Research and a journalist for a local Chinese publication in Malaysia. Ku Kun-hui 顧坤惠 顧坤惠 Ku Kun-hui 顧坤惠 is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Anthropology , National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan and an Adjunct Research Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Western Ontario, Canada. She was educated in Taiwan (NTU), Canada (UWO) and the UK (Cambridge), and was a former Harvard-Yenching visiting scholar (2005–6). She specializes in Austronesian Taiwan, especially the Paiwan people among whom she has conducted fieldwork since 1987. She publishes both in English and in Chinese in the area of indigenous rights and nationalism, material cultures, voting and democracy, naming and hierarchy, Christian conversion and so on. Her research interests include religion and modernity, material and symbolic cultures, historical anthropology, and the anthropology of law. Joel Kuipers Joel Kuipers is Professor of Anthropology at George Washington University. Since 1978, he has conducted ethnographic and linguistic fieldwork in Indonesia, focusing on the relationship between language and systems of authority. He was written two books (Power and Performance, University of Pennsylvania, 1990, and Language, Identity and Marginality in Indonesia, 1998, Cambridge University Press) and many articles about Sumba. Charles J-H Macdonald Charles J-H Macdonald is a social anthropologist and Southeast Asianist. He holds a PhD and a Doctorat d’Etat from the Sorbonne and has done extensive fieldwork in the Philippines (mostly on Palawan), Indonesia, and south-central Vietnam among the Raglai. He is a research fellow [3.135.198.114] Project MUSE (2024-04-17 18:57 GMT) 326 Contributors Emeritus (Directeur de Recherche Emerite) at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and is attached to the Université de la Méditerranée in Marseilles (France). His more recent interests include, besides naming practices, the anthropology of suicide, Austronesian lexicography, anthropological theory, and anarchy. He has written several articles on these topics and has recently published a book on suicide, Uncultural Behavior: An Anthropological Investigation of Suicide in the Southern Philippines (University of Hawaii Press, 2006). He has published numerous books and articles, mostly in...