Contributors
- Contributors
Les W. Field is associate professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico. He consults as tribal ethnohistorian with the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, the Esselen Nation of Costanoan Indians, and the Federated Coast Miwok. His research areas and interests are in Nicaragua, Colombia, Ecuador, and Native California; and on the topics of indigenous identities, ideologies, narrative and memory, nationalist ideologies and the state, resources and development, and social transformations. He is interested in the relationships between those who identify themselves as Indians and those who identify or are identified as mixed bloods or mestizos.
Lawrence W. Gross is assistant professor at Iowa State University with a joint appointment in American Indian studies and religious studies. He is also an enrolled member of the Mississippi Band from the White Earth Nation in Minnesota. This paper is part of a larger study on the trickster in Anishinaabe life and religion, specifically exploring the ways in which the worldview inspired by the trickster is helping the Anishinaabe to preserve their culture in the post-apocalyptic environment.
Philip Laverty is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico. He has been working with the Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen Nation since 1996 on their federal acknowledgment case. His larger dissertation project deals with the social and cultural mechanisms of place attachment that have fostered community maintenance, as well as the historical transformations in place-names and attachments in the context of multiple layers of cataclysmic colonization and accelerated development of the late twentieth century in Monterey.
Alan Leventhal has worked for over twenty years as an archaeologist and ethnohistorian for the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and the Amah-Mutsun Tribal Band of Costanoan Indians, Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen Nation, as well as other California Indian tribes seeking restoration as “previously” federally recognized tribes. He is presently on the administrative staff in the Dean’s Office, College of Social Sciences at San José State University, and has coauthored many articles and reports with members of the three Ohlone/Costanoan tribes.
Bruce G. Miller is associate professor of anthropology, University of British Columbia. Recent publications include The Problem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World. Invisible Indigenes: The Politics of Non-Recognition is forthcoming. He edited Culture, the journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society, from 1996 to 1998, and serves as an expert witness in indigenous litigation in the United States and Canada. He is codirector of the UBC Ethnographic Field School. [End Page 180]
J. Diane Pearson is an instructor in Native American studies in the Ethnic Studies Department of the University of California at Berkeley where she specializes in the politics of diseases and Western medicine. She also serves as a consultant in Self-Determination and Economic Development to Indian nations. Recent publications include “Final Report: Impact Evaluation of Stop Grant program for Reducing Violence against Women among Indian Tribes,” Tribal Law and Policy Program; and “Following Archie Phinney’s Research” and “Peoplehood.”
Archie Phinney was a twice-mentored student of Franz Boas and Vladimir Bogoraz, who received his Ph.D.-equivalent degree from the Soviet Academy of Science in May 1937. His best-known work is Nez Perce Texts, published by Columbia University Press in 1934. He was an enrolled member of the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho. He returned to the United States in July 1937, went to work in the Reorganization Division of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in October 1937, and continued with the BIA until his death in October 1949. He considered his work with the BIA to be applied anthropology.
Jaume Vallverdu is an anthropologist with the Department of Anthropology at the School of Humanities, Autonomous University of the State of Morelos, Mexico.
Albert L. Wahrhaftig is professor, Department of Anthropology, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. He has done fieldwork in many places in the United States, Guatemala, and Mexico, most frequently among Cherokees in the United States and among Totonacs in Mexico, and most recently in Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico, where he has initiated a bilingual Web site, Anales de Tepoztlán, at www.sonoma.edu/anthropology/tepoztlan, for the sharing of information about Tepoztecan culture, history, and art. The editor...
