Richard Handler is professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. His several books include "Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec," published by the University of Wisconsin Press, and a book-length interview with David Schneider, "Schneider on Schneider," Handler is also co-author, with Daniel Segal, of "Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture" and, with Eric Gable, of "The New History in an Old Museum,"