James W. Fernandez is a professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author and editor of numerous works including "Persuasions and Performances: The Play of Tropes in Culture" and "Beyond Metaphor: The Theory of Tropes in Anthropology," Mary Taylor Huber is a senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She is the author of "The Bishop's Progress: A Historical Ethnography of the Catholic Missionary Experience on the Sepik Frontier" and co-editor of "Gendered Missions: Women and Men in Missionary Discourse and Practice,"