Contributors
Lorraine V. Aragon is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is author of Fields o f the Lord: Animism, Christian Minorities, and State Development in Indonesia (Hawaii, 2000).
Henri Chambert-Loir is senior researcher at Ecole Frangaise d'Extreme-Orient, teaching at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS).
Jay Crain, PhD (Cornell), is Teaching Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Asian Studies and former Director of the Center for Pacific Asian Studies at California State University Sacramento. He first studied the Lundayeh in 1968-69 during his doctoral dissertation research. Since 1992, Jay and Vicki Pearson-Rounds (see below) have spent parts of eleven summers in Malaysian or Indonesian Borneo. They have published articles on architecture, religious change, agriculture, identity politics, and a comprehensive bibliography of the Lundayeh. They are currently completing a comprehensive Lundayeh-English Dictionary.
Thomas Gibson is Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Rochester. He has conducted fieldwork on ritual, religion, and politics among the Buid of Mindoro, Philippines and the Makassar of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. He has just published a book about the latter with the University of Hawaii Press: And the Sun Pursued the Moon: Symbolic Knowledge and Traditional Authority among the Makassar.
Audrey Kahin is an editor and historian. Her most recent publications include Rebellion to Integration: West Sumatra and the Indonesian Polity, 1926-1998 (1999) and (with Robert Cribb) the revised edition of The Historical Dictionary of Indonesia (2004).
Tamara Loos is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at Cornell University. She teaches Southeast Asian history and researches law, sexuality, gender, and biography in Thai history. Loos has received fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the Cornell President's Council of Cornell Women Affinito-Stewart Grant, among others.
Saiful Mahdi was born in Singli, Aceh, and grew up in Banda Aceh. He is a PhD student in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University, and author of a number of papers on Aceh. His home page can be found at http: / / www.people.cornell.edu/ pages/ sm364/

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Vicki Pearson-Rounds, MA (CSU, Sacramento), is a Research Development Specialist, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, California State University, Sacramento. She worked with the Lundayeh beginning in 1992 and wrote her MA thesis on Lundayeh women's choices.
Susan Rodgers is Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies Director at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA. She is the author of Sitti Djaoerah: A Novel of Colonial Indonesia (1997) and the forthcoming Print, Poetics, and Politics: A Sumatran Epic in the Colonial Indies and New Order Indonesia.
Henry Spiller is the Luce Assistant Professor in Asian Music and Culture at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. He focuses his research efforts on Sundanese music and dance from West Java, Indonesia. His book, Gamelan: The Traditional Sounds of Indonesia, was recently published by ABC-CLIO.
James T. Siegel is Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Cornell University and an Associate Editor of Indonesia.
Eric Tagliacozzo is Assistant Professor of History and Southeast Asian Studies at Cornell University. He works on smuggling, state formation, and histories of Islam in Southeast Asia.
Chris Wilson is a PhD Candidate in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University. He is currently completing a PhD dissertation on the conflict in North Maluku Province, Indonesia, 1999-2000. He recently worked as a consultant for UNDP Indonesia on the "Peace and Development Analysis in Indonesia" project.