JOSEPH C. BERLAND has lived and traveled with peripatetic communities in Southwest Asia for 25% years. He is the author of No Five Fingers Are Alike and is co-editor with Matt T. Salo of a special issue of the journal Nomadic Peoples devoted to peripatetic peoples. Formerly at Northwestern and Oxford Universities, he is now Adjunct Professor of Social Anthropology at Qaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He is retired from pedagogical activities and pursues full-time research.