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Common Knowledge 9.3 (2003) 554-556



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Barry Allenis the author of Truth in Philosophy and, recently, Knowledge and Civilization. He teaches philosophy at McMaster University.

Joshua Amaru teaches at Yeshivat Bat Ayin in Israel.

Lori Baker, adjunct lecturer in creative writing at Brown University, is the author of Crazy Water: Six Fictions (which received the Bobst Award in Arts and Letters) and Scraps.

David Blackbourn is Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University. His books include The Long Nineteenth Century, Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Nineteenth- Century Germany, Populists and Patricians, and Class, Religion, and Local Politics in Wilhelmine Germany. He is completing a book titled The Conquest of Nature, on the transformation of the German landscape since the eighteenth century.

Sir John Boardman, Lincoln Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology Emeritus at Oxford University, is editor of the Oxford History of Classical Art and the author of, most recently, The History of Greek Vases and The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity.

Caroline Walker Bynum is professor of medieval European history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; University Professor Emerita at Columbia University; and formerly a MacArthur Fellow. Her books include Jesus as Mother; Holy Feast and Holy Fast; Fragmentation and Redemption; The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336; and, most recently, Metamorphosis and Identity.

Andrew Charlesworth is the author of Social Protest in a Rural Society; An Atlas of Rural Protest in Britain, 1548-1900; and (as editor) Moral Economy and Popular Protest: Crowds, Conflicts and Authority. He directs the Geography and Environmental Management Research Group at the University of Gloucestershire and is reader in human geography at Cheltenham and Gloucester College.

Nancy J. Chodorow, professor of sociology and clinical professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, is a member of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute faculty and a psychoanalyst in private practice. Her books include The Reproduction of Mothering (which received the Jessie Bernard Award) and The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture (which received the L. Bryce Boyer Prize). A recipient of the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Contribution to Women and Psychoanalysis, she wrote the article appearing here while a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard.

Shlomo Deshen is professor emeritus of anthropology at Tel Aviv University and past president of the Israel Anthropological Association. His books include The Mellah Society, Jewish Societies in the Middle East, Blind People, Distant Relations, Israeli Judaism, Immigrant Voters in Israel, and Jews among Muslims. [End Page 554]

Wai Chee Dimock is William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. Her books include Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism; Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy; and (as coeditor) Rethinking Class: Literary Studies and Social Formations. She recently edited the special issue, "Literature and Science," of the journal American Literature and is currently writing books titled Literature for the Planet and Deep Time: American Literature and World History.

Clifford Geertz's books include Available Light, After the Fact, Local Knowledge, Negara, and The Interpretation of Cultures. His Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author received the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Eileen Gillooly, director of the core curriculum at Columbia University, is the author of Smile of Discontent: Humor, Gender, and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction, which received the Perkins Prize from the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, and she is currently completing Anxious Affection: Parental Feeling in Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture.

Ian Hacking is professor of the history and philosophy of science at the Collège de France and University Professor at the University of Toronto. His books include The Social Construction ofWhat?, Rewriting the Soul, Representing and Intervening, The Taming of Chance, The Emergence of Probability, The Logic of Statistical Inference, and Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy?

Rachel Hadas, recipient of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Literature Award, teaches at Rutgers University and is the author...

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