Simon Harrison is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Ulster and has carried out ethnographic fieldwork among the people of Avatip in Papua New Guinea. He is the author of, among other works, "The Mask of War" (Manchester University Press, 1993), "Fracturing Resemblances: Identity and Mimetic Conflict in Melanesia and the West" (Berghahn Books, 2005), and "Dark Trophies: Hunting and the Enemy Body in Modern War" (Berghahn Books, 2012).