<p style="margin: 0.2pt 0.25pt 0.0001pt 13pt; text-align: justify;" <span style="color: #231f20;" Raymond Scupin is Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at Lindenwood University. He received his</span <span <span style="color: #231f20; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;" B.A. degree </span <span style="color: #231f20; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;" in </span <span style="color: #231f20;" history, <span style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;" Asian studies, </span <span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;" and </span <span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;" anthropology, </span from the <span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;" University </span of <span… style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;" California-Los Angeles. </span He <span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;" com</span pleted his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in anthropology at <span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;" the </span University of California-Santa Barbara. <span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;" Dr. </span Scupin is truly a <span style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;" four-field anthropologist. During graduate school, </span <span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;" he </span did archaeological and ethnohistorical research on Native <span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;" Americans </span <span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;" in </span <span style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;" the </span <span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;" Santa Barbara region. </span <span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;" He </span <span style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;" did </span <span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;" exten</span <span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;" sive ethnographic fieldwork </span in <span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;" Thailand with </span a <span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;" focus </span <span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;" on </span understanding the ethnic and religious movements among the <span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;" Muslim </span minority. In <span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;" addition, </span <span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;" Dr. </span <span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;" Scupin taught lin</span guistics and conducted linguistic research while based at a Thai<span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;" </span university.</span </span </p <p style="margin: 0.05pt 6.3pt 0.0001pt 9.35pt; text-align: justify;" <span style="color: #231f20;" <span </span <span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;" Dr. </span Scupin has been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in anthropology for more than thirty years at a <span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;" variety </span of <span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;" academic institutions, including community </span colleges,<span style="letter-spacing: 0.9pt;" </span research<span style="letter-spacing: 0.9pt;" </span universities,<span style="letter-spacing: 0.9pt;" </span and<span style="letter-spacing: 0.9pt;" </span a<span style="letter-spacing: 0.9pt;" </span four-year<span style="letter-spacing: 0.9pt;" </span liberal<span style="letter-spacing: 0.9pt;" </span arts university. Thus, he has taught a very broad spectrum of undergraduate students. Through his teaching experience, Dr. <span style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;" Scupin </span <span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;" was prompted </span <span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;" to </span <span style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;" write </span <span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;" this </span <span style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;" textbook, </span <span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;" which </span <span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;" would allow </span a <span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;" wide range </span of <span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;" undergraduate students