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  • Notes on Contributors

Andrea Klimt is Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and at the Center for Portuguese Studies in the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. She is the author of numerous articles, including "Divergent Trajectories: Portugueseness in France and Germany," forthcoming in Ler História; "Do National Narratives Matter?" European Encounters, 1945-2000, ed. Rainer Ohliger et al. (forthcoming); "European Spaces: Portuguese Migrants' Notions of Home and Belonging," Diaspora (2000); and "Enacting National Selves: Authenticity, Adventure, and Disaffection On the Portuguese Diaspora," Identities (1999).

João Leal is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal. He is the author, in Portuguese, of three books, including Etnografias portuguesas (1870-1970): cultura popular e identidade nacional (Lisbon 2000); A Festas do Espírito Santo nos Açores: um estudo de antropología social [Holy Ghost Festivals in the Azores: A Study in Social Anthropology] (Lisbon 1994). His many articles include "Metamorfoses da arte popular," Etnograficá (2002), which deals with changing views of folk art in Portuguese anthropology; and "Las Tesis lusitanistas: antropología y arqueología en Portugal [The Lusitanian Theses: Anthropology and Archeology in Portugal]", Complutum 2001.

Stephen C. Lubkemann is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at George Washington University and was until recently a postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropological Demography at Brown University's Thomas J. Watson Institute. He is the author of several articles, including "The Transformation of Transnationality among Mozambican Migrants in South Africa," Canadian Journal of African Studies (2000); and "Where to Be an Ancestor? Reconstituting Socio-Spiritual Worlds and Post-Conflict Settlement Decision-Making among displaced Mozambicans" Journal of Refugee Studies (2002).

Edite Noivo is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She is the author of Inside Ethnic Families: Three Generations of Portuguese Canadians (McGill-Queens' UP, 1997); and co-author, with M. McAndrew, of Racisme au Québec: éléments d'un diagnostic (Gouvernement du Québec, 1996). She has published several journal articles and book chapters, such as "Diasporic Identities at Century's End," The Portuguese in Canada, ed. C. Teixeira and V. P. da Rosa (U Toronto P, 2000); and "Neither 'Ethnic Heroes' nor 'Racial Villains': Inter-Minority Group Racism," Racism and Social Inequality in Canada, ed. Vic Sazwewich (Thompson Education P, 1998).

Margaret Sarkissian is Associate Professor of Music at Smith College in Northampton, MA. She is the author of D'Albuquerque's Children: Performing Tradition in Malaysia's Portuguese Settlement (U Chicago P, 2000). In the series Excursions in World Music (Prentice-Hall), she is the author of three "Instructor's Manuals." In another series, A Viagem dos sons (Lisbon, 1998), she is the compiler of twelve recordings of music from the Portuguese diaspora and the author of a 141-page companion booklet to the compact disc. She has authored or co-authored fifteen articles, including "Armenians in South-East Asia," Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (1987); and "Thoughts on the Study of Gender in Ethnomusicology," Women and Music (1999).

R. Timothy Sieber is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the U of Massachusetts Boston. He is the co-editor of Achieving Against the Odds: How Academics Become Teachers of Diverse Students (Temple UP, 2001); and Children and Their Organizations: Investigations in American Culture (G.K. Hall, 1981). His journal articles include "Remembering Vasco da Gama: Contested Histories and the Cultural Politics Of Nation-Building in Lisbon, Portugal," Identities (2001); and "Anthropology, United States Culture, and the Public," Reviews in Anthropology (1992).

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