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, he worked on tribal symbolism in Jharkhand (The World of the Oraon, 2006). He started teaching in 1998, and has been involved in research in North-West and Central India.

Marcia Leenen-Young is a senior lecturer in Pacific in Pacific Studies in Te Wānanga o Waipapa at Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland. Her research interests include the historical relationship between New Zealand and the Pacific, Indigenous Pacific ways of telling history, Pacific research methodologies, and Pacific pedagogies. Marcia is the first editor of Waka Kuaka: the Journal of the Polynesian Society of Pacific descent.