David Nugent is Professor of Anthropology, Emory University. He is President-Elect, American Ethnological Society and North American Editor of the journal "Critique of Anthropology," He is the author of "Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Individual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes" (1997), and the editor of "Locating Capitalism in Time and Space" (2002).
Joan Vincent is Professor of Anthropology Emerita at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is author of numerous books and encyclopedia articles on political anthropology. Her works include "Anthropology and Politics...