Joy Hendry is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She specializes in the study of Japan, but has alsonbsp;done fieldworknbsp;in Morocco, Canada andnbsp;Mexico, and has made recent visits to China, Indonesia, Nepal and Uzbekistan. She is the author of many books including Wrapping Culture: Politeness, Presentationnbsp;and Power in Japan and Other Societies and Reclaiming Culture: Indigenous Peoples and Self-Representation , whichnbsp;was picked by Choice magazine as one of their 'outstanding academic titles' in 2006.
Simon Underdown is Senior Lecturer in Biological Anthropology, also at Brookes University, where his research looks at the extinction of Neanderthals. He has written about evolution for the Guardian. Both authors live in Oxfordshire.