A. Clifton James
R. H. Barnes is currently university lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Oxford and fellow of St. Anthony’s College. He has published on Indonesian and North American topics and his books include Kedang: A Study of the Collective Thought of an Eastern Indonesian People and Two Crows Denies It: a History of Controversy in Omaha Sociology. He is working on a study of development and tradition in an Indonesian whaling community (about which he has recently made a film with Granada Television of Britain) and on Southeast Asian conceptions of space, time, and number.
Lynn Ceci, Ph.D. (1930-1989) was an avid teacher and writer of anthropology. She carved out a specialty, the settlement patterns of Eastern Coastal Indian societies during the Colonial era, and subsequently became a leading authority on the origin and significance of wampum, shell beads, and Indian corn cultivation. An associate professor of anthropology at Queens College, New York, her alma mater, and a member of the faculty of the Ph.D. program in anthropology for the Graduate School of the City University of New York, she was respected as an unusually gifted and inspiring teacher. She was also a prolific writer and published many significant essays and reviews in Anthropology and Archaeology journals. She authored and coedited two books and is represented as a contributor to several others. While being wife, mother, and grandmother, Mrs. Ceci was also honored for her scholarly accomplishments by numerous professional awards, including Sigma Xi, a faculty-in-residence award, a National Science Foundation grant, the Robert F. Heizer Prize in Ethnohistory, and others.
James A. Clifton first became interested in anthropology during World War II, while visiting Pacific Islands under less than pacific auspices. He then studied at the University of Chicago and, after the Korean War and more military field work in Korea and Japan, completed his doctoral studies in anthropology at the University of Oregon. Though originally trained as a Pacific specialist, for some thirty years his research has been concentrated on American Indians. An ethnohistorian and psychological anthropologist, he is emeritus Frankenthal Professor of Anthropology and History at the University of Wisconsin—Green Bay, and is currently Scholar in Residence at Western Michigan University. His books include, Being and Becoming Indian, The Prairie People, Star Woman and Other Shawnee Tales, The Potawatomi, and A Place of Refuge For All Time.
Leland Donald, when not refreshing his soul by bird-watching or observing the fauna of tidepools, teaches anthropology at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. He is a graduate of Emory University, completed his graduate training in anthropology at the University of Oregon, and has done ethnographic research among the Navajo of Northern Arizona and the Yalunka of Sierra Leone, to which he has added ethnohistorical studies of the peoples of the Northwest Coast of North America. He specializes in studies of social inequality, slavery, and warfare.
Christian F. Feest is curator of the North and Middle American collections at the Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna, and teaches anthropology at the University of Vienna. He is editor of the European Review of Native American Studies; and his most recent books include Indians and Europe, Das rote Amerika, and Native Arts of North America.
Stephen E. Feraca is a Columbia University trained anthropologist who spent his whole professional career as an applied anthropologist and administrator with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. He served as education and community development specialist among the Pine Ridge Sioux and the Florida Seminole; but most of his service was in the Bureau’s Washington office in the Tribal Organization Branch. There he was responsible for processing Indian Claims Commission awards and for preparation of enabling legislation for these payments. His latest production is his book, “Why Don’t They Give Them Guns?” The Great American Indian Myth.
Allan van Gestel is an attorney and legal scholar, specialized in Indian, environmental, and civil litigation. Educated at Colby College and at Boston University School of Law, where he served as editor of the Law Review, he is a partner in the Boston firm of Goodwin, Procter & Hoar. He has served as special counsel in investigations of several judicial problems, and regularly works in continuing legal education for attorneys. His Indian law expertise has been expressed in service as chief trial counsel in the defense of most of the Eastern Indian land claims cases in New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont. A prolific writer and lecturer, he has published essays concerning Indian land claims issues in a variety of legal journals and books, and regularly lectures for university audiences.
Sam Gill teaches at the field of religious studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder. His recent publications include Mother Earth: An American Story and Native American Religious Tradition.
David Henige is the African Studies Bibliographer at the University of Wisconsin—Madison and has an interest in historical methodology, oral tradition, and textual criticism. He has published on Native American historical demography in Hispanic American Historical Review, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, and Ethnohistory. He is presently completing a study of the sources for Columbus’ first voyage.
Alice B. Kehoe is Professor of Anthropology, Marquette University, where she has taught since 1968. She obtained her B.A. from Barnard College and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her dissertation compared the Saskatchewan Dakota New Tidings (Ghost Dance) religion with Plains Cree and Saul-teaux (Ojibwa) religion in Saskatchewan, and she has done ethnographic fieldwork also with Blackfeet in Montana and Alberta, as well as with Fundamentalist Protestants, the “radical Christian right.” Among her publications are, North American Indians: A Comprehensive Account, and The Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory and Revitalization.
Carol Mason earned her graduate degrees in anthropology at the University of Michigan. A leading archaeologist and ethnohistorian, specialized in the study of culture change among Indians during the prehistory and early history of the Great Lakes region, she is Professor of Anthropology in the University of Wisconsin Center System. Among her many writings is her recent book, Wisconsin Indians: Prehistory to Statehood.
Richard de Mille, after military service in World War II, was a television director, a copy editor, a science-fiction writer, and a graduate student at the University of Southern California, where he received a Ph. D. in clinical and measurement psychology. He taught in universities, worked in think tanks, and eventually returned to writing. He is the author of numerous scientific, technical, and popular publications, including Put Your Mother on the Ceiling: Children’s Imagination Games. Choice selected The Don Juan Papers as an outstanding academic anthropology book of 1980.
John A. Price (1933-1988) was a distinguished scholar and an applied anthropologist. Educated at the universities of Utah, Hawaii, Michigan, and Osaka, Japan, he earned a high reputation for his studies of minorities and social and cultural borderlands in Japan, Mexico, the United States, and Canada. Author of more than a dozen books and monographs, and many essays, he specialized in culture contact and change, urbanization, and economic development. He taught at UCLA, San Diego State University, McMaster University, the University of Toronto, and, from 1980 until his death, at York University. In the last fifteen years of his career he became an authority on the native peoples of Canada, and on advocacy groups and development programs involving them. Among his books are: Tiajuana: Urbanization in a Border Culture; Native Studies:American and Canadian Indians; Indians of Canada; and The Was ho Indians. While being husband, father, and good citizen, Dr. Price also acted as consultant to native groups, served on various editorial boards, and was the editor of the Applied Anthropology Newsletter.
Jean-Jacques Simard is professeur titulaire of sociology at Laval University. Between 1967 and 1972 he worked as community development agent among the Cree and as special assistant to the deputy minister of Quebec on the development of sub-arctic part of that province. He later served as advisor for the Arctic Inuit cooperative movement and for those dissident Inuit who are seeking an autonomous regional status. He is presently research director of Laval University’s Center for Inuit and Circumpolar Studies. He is editor of the journal Recherches sociographiques and author of La longue marches des technocrates and many essays on Quebec society and native affairs.
Elisabeth Tooker is professor of anthropology at Temple University. She is one of the leading authorities on the culture and history of the Northern Iroquoians and her research and writing has particularly concerned these societies. Among her many books and essays about the Iroquoians are An Ethnohistory of the Hurons, 1615-1649 and The Iroquois Ceremonial of Midwinter.