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Vinay Kumar Srivastava teaches social anthropology at the University of Delhi. He is the author of Religious Renunciation of a Pastoral People and has edited Methodology and Fieldwork. He has carried out intensive fieldwork in western Rajasthan, and is presently working on a book on the economy of a seminomadic, pastora community.

Chen Shao-Ming is a Professor of Chinese Philosophy at Zhongshan University, Canton. Chen recently published The Interpreted Tradition in China.

Nader El-Bizri is an Affiliated Research Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and a Research Associate in Philosophy at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London. Of his scholarly writings, he has recently published The Phenomenological Quest Between Avicenna and Heidegger.

Leo Marx is Senior Lecturer and William R. Kenan Professor of American Cultural History Emeritus inthe Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. He is the author of many books, including The Machine in teh Garden (1967), and The Pilot and the Passenger: Essays on Literature, Technology, and Society in America (1988).

Jean-Bernard Ouedraogo teaches sociology in Burkina Faso at Universite de Ouagadougou and Universite Laval. His most recent publications are Violence et Communautes en Afrique noire. (L'Harmattan, Paris, 1997) and Arts photographiques en Afrique. Technique et esthetique dans la photographie de studio au Burkina Faso (L'Harmattan, Paris, 2003).

Pierre Zaoui teaches philosophy at Universitie Paris X-Nanterre, and directs a program at the College International de Philosophie (Paris). He is the author of Hume (Editions les belles letters, 2005).