John Edward Terrell is Regenstein Curator of Pacific Anthropology Emeritus at Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

Eugene Anderson is Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, at the University of California, Riverside. He studies cultural ecology and medical anthropology.

Foreman Bandama is the Assistant Curator of African Anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History, and Lecturer at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Abhik Ghosh is Professor of Social Anthropology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, where he has been Chairperson of the Department of Anthropology and the Coordinator of the CAS-II Program at the University of Delhi.

Marcia Leenen-Young is a senior lecturer in Pacific in Pacific Studies in Te Wananga o Waipapa at Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland.