#60;b#62;Nicholas J. Allen#60;/b#62; is Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. He has published on the Himalayas, kinship theory, the Durkheimian School and Indo-European Comparativism. His books include #60;i#62;Categories and Classifications#60;/i#62; (2000) and #60;i#62;Marcel Mauss: A Centenary Tribute#60;/i#62; (1998).#60;br#62;#60;p#62;#60;br#62;#60;p#62;#60;b#62;Hilary Callan#60;/b#62; has been Director of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland since 2000. Her research and publications include work on biological and social anthropology, occupational cultures, and gender, including #60;i#62;Ethology and Society#60;/i#62; (1970)and… #60;i#62;The Incorporated Wife#60;/i#62; (edited with Shirley Ardener, 1984).#60;br#62;#60;p#62;#60;b#62;Wendy James#60;/b#62; was until recently Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, and is now Emeritus Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. She has carried out ethnographic research in North East Africa, and her books include #60;i#62;War and Survival in Sudan's Frontierlands: Voices from the Blue Nile#60;/i#62; (2007) and #60;i#62;The Ceremonial#60;/i#62; #60;i#62;Animal: A New Portrait of Anthropology#60;/i#62; (2003).#60;br#62;#60;p#62;#60;b#62;Robin Dunbar#60;/b#62; is Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, and specializes in primate behaviour. He is co-director of the British Academy's Centenary Research Project (#8242;From Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain#8242;). He is the author or co-author of numerous books, including #60;i#62;The Human Story#60;/i#62; (2004) and #60;i#62;Evolutionary Psychology: A Beginner's Guide#60;/i#62; (2005).
Brian V. Street is Professor of Language in Education in the School of Education at King's College, London University and Visiting Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. He undertook anthropological fieldwork in Iran during the 1970s, and has since worked in the USA, Britain, and S. Africa.Nancy H. Hornberger is Professor of Education and Director of Educational Linguistics at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania.
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.