Susan McKinnon is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia. She is the author of F"rom a Shattered Sun: Hierarchy, Gender, and Alliance in the Tanimbar Islands" and coeditor of R"elative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies." Sydel Silverman is president emerita of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and professor emerita of anthropology at the City University of New York. She is the author or editor of several books, including "The Beast on the Table: Conferencing with Anthropologists" and "Totems and Teachers: Key Figures in the History of Anthro...