PAUL D. BARCLAY

is Associate Professor of History at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. He is currently writing a social and cultural history of Japanese colonial rule in Taiwan's highland territories.

BRONWEN DOUGLAS

is a Senior Fellow in Pacific and Asian History in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University. Her current research project is exploring the entanglements of the scientific idea of race with encounters in Oceania. She has also written extensively on the intersections of Christianity and gender in Melanesia and on the colonial history of New Caledonia. She is the author of Across the Great Divide: Journeys in History and Anthropology (Amsterdam; Harwood Academic Publishers, 1998) and has edited several collections, including Tattoo: Bodies, Art and Exchange in the Pacific and the West (London and Durham: Duke University Press, 2005), co-edited with Anna Cole and Nicholas Thomas.

HENRIKA KUKLICK

is a Professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania. A specialist in the history of the human sciences, her publications include The Savage Within: The Social History of British Anthropology, 1885-1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, 1992, 1993), an edited collection, A New History of Anthropology (forthcoming 2007, Blackwell Publishing), and articles in The American Ethnologist, The Annual Review of Sociology, The British Journal for the History of Science, History of Anthropology, The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Sociological Quarterly, and Theory and Society.

BENJAMIN PENNY

is a Research Fellow in the History of China in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University. He is the editor of Religion and Biography in China and Tibet (London: Curzon Press, 2002) and Daoism in History: Essays in Honour of Liu Ts’un-yan (London: Routledge, 2006). He is currently writing a monograph on the Falun Gong as well as undertaking projects on the cult of the South Sea God in southern China and the history of Sinology.

PETER TONER

is an anthropologist/ethnomusicologist at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He has conducted almost two years of research on Yolngu music, principally in Gapuwiyak, N.T., on issues relating to social identity, cultural change, and historical aspects of music research. His current research interests also include folk music and Irish cultural identity in Atlantic Canada.