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João Biehl is an assistant professor of anthropology at Princeton University. He teaches medical anthropology and the anthropology of science and technology. Currently he is working on two book projects: “Subjectivity Transformed” (with Byron Good and Arthur Kleinman) and “Vita: Life in a Dead Language” (with photographer Torben Eskerod).

Dominic Boyer is an assistant professor of anthropology at Cornell University. His current research interests are the anthropology of intellectuals and the roles of media and media professionals in the cultivation of languages of national belonging.

Allen Feldman is a visiting professor of anthropology at the Ljubljana Institute for Humanities Studies, specializing in the political anthropology of the body, violence, and human rights. He is the author of Formations of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland (University of Chicago Press, 1991), as well as numerous articles on political violence, the body, the senses, and visual culture. He currently is a Guggenheim Foundation Senior Fellow.

Mandana E. Limbert is a doctoral candidate in anthropology and Near Eastern studies at the University of Michigan. She is currently a fellow at the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Middle Eastern studies at New York University.

Arvind Rajagopal teaches media studies at New York University. He is the author of Politics after Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India (Cambridge, 2001). In 1998–99 he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.

C. Nadia Seremetakis is the author of The Last Word: Women, Death, and Divination in Inner Mani (Laconia) (University of Chicago Press, 1991) and The Senses Still: Perception and Memory as Material Culture in Modernity (University of Chicago Press, 1996). Professor of anthropology and cultural studies in Greece and abroad, she will be International Visitor at New York University’s Department of Culture and Communication in 2002.

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