Pedro Pitarch Editor & Author

Pedro Pitarch (Editor) is Professor of Anthropology at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. Jose Antonio Kelly (Editor) is Assistant Professor at the Univeridade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil. Roy Wagner was a professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of Virginia for the last forty years. His ethnographic work with Daribi and Barok peoples in Papua New Guinea and New Ireland, respectively,forms the base for his vast body of publications, comprising nine books, as well as many articles, on topics ranging from kinship and mythology to poststructural anthropology, ethnographic methodology and trickery, and fiction.Some of this work serves as the inspiration and guiding line of enquiry for this book.