Susan McKinnon is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia, the author of From a Shattered Sun: Hierarchy, Gender, and Alliance in the Tanimbar Islands, and co-editor of Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies. Sydel Silverman is president emerita of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and professor emerita of Anthropology at the City University of New York. She is the author or editor of several books including The Beast on the Table: Conferencing with Anthropologists and Totems and Teachers: Key Figures in the History of Anthropology.