William A. Haviland
William A. Haviland is professor emeritus at the University of Vermont, where he founded the Department of Anthropology and taught for 32 years. He holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and has conducted research in archaeology in Guatemala and Vermont; ethnography in Maine and Vermont; and physical anthropology in Guatemala. This work has been the basis of many publications in national and international books and journals, as well as in trade publications. His books include The Original Vermonters, co-authored with Marjorie Power, and a technical monograph on ancient Maya settlement. He served as consultant for the award-winning telecourse Faces of Culture, and he is co-editor of the series Tikal Reports, published by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Dr. Haviland has lectured to many professional and non-professional audiences in Canada, Mexico, Lesotho, South Africa, and Spain, as well as in the United States. A staunch supporter of indigenous rights, he served as expert witness for the Missisquoi Abenaki of Vermont in a case over aboriginal fishing rights. Dr. Haviland received the University Scholar award by the Graduate School of the University of Vermont in 1990; a Certificate of Appreciation from the Sovereign Republic of the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi, St. Francis/Sokoki Band in 1996; and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Center for Research on Vermont in 2006. Now retired from teaching, he continues his research, writing, and lecturing from the coast of Maine and serves as a trustee for the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, focused on Maine's Native American history, culture, art, and archaeology. His most recent books are At the Place of the Lobsters and Crabs (2009) and Canoe Indians of Down East Maine (2012).
Liam Kilmurray
Liam Kilmurray completed his graduate work at Cambridge and Sheffield, with a focus on archaeological theory and prehistory. A native of Dublin, Ireland, he became fascinated by ancient history, specifically the Neolithic period of Ireland, and the Atlantic Façade. Working and travelling abroad, Dr. Kilmurray developed an abiding interest in anthropology. He worked as an archaeologist for over 7 years, conducting excavations in Canada and overseas. He has been teaching cultural anthropology at the University of Ottawa for 7 years and also teaches anthropology courses at Carleton University. Teaching a wide variety of courses from cultural anthropology to Marxist theory, and being interested in topics such as Neolithic monuments, architecture, and social memory, Dr. Kilmurray continues to be fascinated by the diversity of knowledge that anthropological studies entails. This text, he feels, offers the introductory and advanced reader a detailed coverage of the many exciting fields of anthropology and the wide array of topics that anthropologists study. Dr. Kilmurray enjoys teaching and hopes that his students gain some flavour of the intricate and rewarding world of anthropology from both his course and this textbook. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, watching and playing Gaelic Football, and, with his wife Heather, driving their two sons to hockey rinks, soccer, or Gaelic football fields.
Shirley Fedorak
Shirley Fedorak is a sessional lecturer in sociocultural anthropology and archeology at the University of Saskatchewan, where she has taught since 1991. During the 1990's, she worked on several curriculum projects, including "People in their World: A Study of first Nations Peoples on the Plains," sponsored by the Saskatchewan Public School Board. She has also written and developed multimedia courses in anthropology and archaeology for the University of Saskatchewan Extension Division. Recently, Professor Fedorak discovered the value of Web-based resources, and has designed her own Web page entitled Anthropology and You at http://www.anthropology.fedcor.net. In addition to serving as lead author on the first and second editions of Williams Haviland's Cultural ?anthropology, Professor Fedorak co-authored the supplement Canadian Perspectives on Archaeology and Biological Anthropology (2002), and the first Canadian edition of Human Evolution and Prehistory (2005). Her most recent publications are windows on the World: Case Studies in Anthropology (2006), and Anthropology Matters! (2007). Like Dr. Haviland, one of Professor Fedorak's greatest loves is teaching, which played a role in her agreeing to "Canadianize" Cultural Anthropology. She too has learned a great deal from her students over the years, and readily shares her views on the importance and value of an anthropological education in today's rapidly changing world: "Of all the disciplines, cultural anthropology is the one where students actually learn about what it means to be citizens of the world."
Richard B. Lee
