About the Author
Hermine G. De Soto is assistant scientist in anthropology at the Women's Studies Research Center at the University at Wisconsin-Madison. She is the editor of CULTURE AND CONTRADICTION: DIALECTICS OF WEALTH, POWER AND SYMBOL (Mellon Research University Press, 1992). Her previous research is forthcoming in THE DELAYED TRANSFORMATION: EXPERIENCES OF EVERYDAY LIFE IN A VILLAGE IN THE BLACK FOREST. Presently her field research is on "contesting female personhood: comparison of east and west German legal cultures in the process of unification."
David G. Anderson is a doctoral candidate and Commonwealth scholar in the Department of Social Anthropology at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, England. He has worked for several years in a Gwich'in community in Canada's Northwest Territories. His ongoing research and fieldwork are on social change among northern native peoples in Siberia.
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