NENI PANOURGIA is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She has published "Fragments of Death", "Fables of Identity: An Athenian Anthropography", winner of the Grand Jury Prize of the International Society of Ethnohistory and co-winner of the Chicago Folklore Prize. She has co-edited, with George E. Marcus, the volume "Ethnographica Moralia: Experiments in Interpretive Anthropology" (Fordham).