Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain

Faye D. Ginsburg is David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Media, Culture and History at New York University. She is author of the award-winning Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community (California, second edition 1998) and coeditor of Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction (California, 1995), among other books. Lila Abu-Lughod is Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at Columbia University and author of the award-winning books Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories (California, 1993) and Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (California, 1986, 2000), among others. Brian Larkin is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College, Columbia University.