Contributors
- Contributors
Elliott Oring is professor of anthropology, emeritus, at California State University, Los Angeles. He has published numerous books and articles on folklore, humor, and cultural symbolism. His most recent book, Engaging Humor, was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2003.
Inna Golovakha-Hicks is professor at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kyiv. She has studied modern Ukrainian folklore and folk demonology in both rural and urban settings and has published a book on the folklore of Ploske village in Ukraine (coauthored with Olesya Brytsyna).
Mathias Guenther is a professor of anthropology whose research is on the expressive culture and religion of the San (Bushmen) of southern Africa. His books include Bushman Folklore Oral Traditions of the Nharo of Botswana and the /Xam of the Cape (1989) and Tricksters and Trancers: Bushman Religion and Society (1999).
Yang Lemei graduated from English Department of Nankai University in Tianjin, China. She is associate professor at Tianjin University of Finance and Economics. Her publications include numerous works on business use of the English language and on reforming state-owned enterprises in China.
Guntis Šmidchens is assistant professor of Baltic Studies at the Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington, Seattle. He holds a Ph.D. in Folklore from Indiana University.
Sergei Kruks is a leading researcher and lecturer on discourse analysis and semiotics at Rīga Stradiņš University. He received his M.Phil. in media studies at the University of Oslo and his doctoral degree in information and communication sciences at the Sorbonne University. He currently researches Soviet media and cultural policy and the manifestation of these Soviet conceptions in contemporary Latvia. [End Page 299]
