Vanessa Elisa Grotti Editor

Marc Brightman is Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. His research, based on fieldwork among the Trio, Wayana, and Akuriyo of southern Suriname and French Guiana, covers subjects including indigenous leadership, native Amazonian forms of ownership, and the politics of conservation. Vanessa Elisa Grotti is currently British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at ISCA (Oxford). She has also been Research Fellow at the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale (EHESS-College de France, Paris) and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Olga Ulturgasheva is Research Fellow in Social Anthropology and Polar Studies at Clare Hall and Research Associate of Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. Her ethnographic monograph is currently titled "Ideas of the Future among Young Eveny in Northeastern Siberia" (Berghahn Books, in preparation).