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Kamal K. Misra is Professor and Head, Department of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. He had his academic training at Utkal University, Bhubaneswar; Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; and the University of Kent at Canterbury, United Kingdom. He is also a recipient of commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship and the Fulbright Fellowship. Dr. Misra has taught at Utkal University, the University of Hyderabad and at Austin College, Texas, USA. He specializes in Environmental Anthropology, Anthropological Linguistics and Theory in anthropology. He has extensively carried out fieldwork in Northeast, Central and South Indian tribal and rural communities. His publications include Social Structure0 and Change among the Ho of Orissa (1987), Tribal Elite and Social Transformation (1994), Text Book of Anthropological Linguistics (2000), and Peoples and Environment in India (2001), co-edited with M.L.K. Murty. He has over 50 research papers published in national and international journals, and book chapters. Dr. Misra is on the Board of Editors of Indian Anthropologist, and Man and Life.

Janet Huber Lowry, is Associate Professor of Sociology and former Dean of Social Sciences at Austin College, in Sherman, Texas, USA. She had her academic training in Mathematics at Hanover College in Indianan; and Sociology for both MA and PhD at UNC Chapel Hill where she specialized in research methods and demography. As a teacher she has offered courses in aging, demography, gender, Indian society, marriage and family, research methods, statistics, and work. Most of her research has been in community service and social gerontology.