Tom D. Dillehay is Rebecca Web Wilson University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University. He has conducted numerous archaeological and anthropological projects in Peru, Chile, Argentina, and other South American countries and the United States. He is the author of Monuments, Empires, and Resistance: The Araucanian Polity and Ritual Narratives, as well as numerous other books and articles.