James W. Fernandez is a professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author and editor of numerous works including Persuasions and Performances: The Play of Tropes in Culture and Beyond Metaphor: The Theory of Tropes in Anthropology.

Mary Taylor Huber is a senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She is the author of The Bishop’s Progress: A Historical Ethnography of the Catholic Missionary Experience on the Sepik Frontier and co-editor of Gendered Missions: Women and Men in Missionary Discourse and Practice.