Andrew J. Strathern

Andrew J. Strathern W. Mellon Professor at the University ofPittsburgh. His interests include the analysis of political and economic systems in small-scale societies, kinship theories, social change, religion,symbolism, ethnicity, legal nthropology, conflict and violence, the anthropology of the body, and the cross-cultural study of medical systems.

Stewart and Strathern have co-authored many articles and books, including Empowering the Past: Confronting the Future (Palgrave, 2004), and Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors and Gossip (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Recently, they have co-edited, Landscape, Memory, and History (Pluto Press, 2003), and Contesting Rituals (Carolina Academic Press, 2005).