Yolanda Murphy, previously on the faculty of Empire State College (SUNY), is retired.Robert F. Murphy was professor of anthropology at Columbia University. He was the author of many books and articles, including Headhunter's Heritage: Social and Economic Change Among the Munduruc� Indiansand The Body Silent: The Different World of the Disabled,for which he won a Columbia University Lionel Trilling Award.R. Brian Ferguson, editor of the foreword, is professor of anthropology at Rutgers University -- Newark. His books include The State, Identity, and Violenceand Yanomami Warfare: A Political History.