James G. Carrier is Hon. Research Associate at Oxford Brookes University and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Indiana. His published books include Gifts and Commodities: Exchange and Western Capitalism since 1700 (1995, Routledge), Occidentalism (1995, Oxford UP, J. Carrier, ed.), Meanings of the Market (1997, Berg, J. Carrier, ed.), Virtualism (1998, Berg, J. Carrier and Daniel Miller, eds), Confronting Environments: Local Environmental Understanding in a Globalising World (2004, AltaMira, J. Carrier, ed.), A Handbook of Economic Anthropology (2005, Edward Elgar, J. Carrier, ed.; selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2006). He was awarded the Rivers Memorial Medal by the RAI in 1997, and was Hon. Ed. of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1999-2001.
Deborah B. Gewertz is G. Henry Whitcomb Professor of Anthropology at Amherst College. Her first ethnography was Sepik River Societies (1983, Yale). With Edward Schieffelin, she co-edited History and Ethnohistory in Papua New Guinea (1985, Oceania Monographs). With Frederick Errington, she wrote Cultural Alternatives and a Feminist Anthropology (1987, Cambridge), Twisted Histories, Altered Contexts (1991, Cambridge), Articulating Change in the ‘Last Unknown' (1995, Westview Press), Emerging Class in Papua New Guinea (1999, Cambridge) and Yali's Question: Sugar, Culture, and History (2004, Chicago).
