Richard J. Perry earned a B.A. in anthropology at Harvard and his M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology at Syracuse University. He has done field work on the San Carlos Apache Reservation in Arizona and spent a year and half in Kenya with his wife, Professor Alice Pomponio, co-directing the St. Lawrence University Kenya Semester Program. He is the author of four other books, titled "Western Apache Heritage, Apache Reservation, From Time Immemorial, "and "Five Key Concepts in Anthropological Thinking." He is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at St. Lawrence University, where he taught from 1971 to 20...